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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Tres Pinos in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.38 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/12/17 / 2017-12-28 00:22:45 / December 28, 2017 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:22:45 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -121.3101654° West, 36.6833344° North, depth 4.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72945016. Id of event: nc72945016.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Firebaugh, Scotts Valley, Newman. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km S of Tres Pinos, CA.

CA Firebaugh Gilroy Morgan Hill Newman Salinas Santa Cruz Scotts Valley Tres Pinos United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.3101654° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6833344° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km S of Tres Pinos, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-28 00:22:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-28 00:28:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	176	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	nc72945016	Id of event.
Event Code	72945016	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72945016,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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