Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag strikes near Hollister in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hollister in CA. The 3.43-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:09:08 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/03/18 / 2018-03-11 18:09:08 / March 11, 2018 @ 6:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -121.4403305° West, 36.9440002° North, depth 3.12 km. Unique identifier: nc72982551. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72982551. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.12 km (2 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stanford, Palo Alto, West Modesto (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 11 km NNW of Hollister, CA.

CA Fremont Hollister Palo Alto Salinas San Jose Santa Clara Stanford Sunnyvale United States West Modesto

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.4403305° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9440002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NNW of Hollister, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-11 18:09:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-11 18:18:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	20	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	189	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	0.0489	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	nc72982551	Id of event.
Event Code	72982551	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72982551,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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