Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pinnacles in CA on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72936416. Unique identifier: nc72936416. Exact location of earthquake, -121.2248306° West, 36.6178322° North, depth 5.45 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/17 / 2017-12-07 17:00:29 / December 7, 2017 @ 5:00 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.45 km (3 miles). The 3.16-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:00:29 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Newman, Live Oak, Soquel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NW of Pinnacles, CA.

CA Gilroy Live Oak Los Banos Morgan Hill Newman Pinnacles Salinas Soquel United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.2248306° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6178322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NW of Pinnacles, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-07 17:00:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-07 17:09:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	154	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nc	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05117	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72936416	Id of event.
Event Code	72936416	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72936416,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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