Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near Concord in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Concord in CA. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:05:39 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.42 km (10 miles). Event id: nc72991830. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72991830. Exact location, longitude -122.0345001° West, latitude 37.979332° North, depth = 15.42 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/03/18 / 2018-03-30 15:05:39 / March 30, 2018 @ 3:05 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Parkway, Elk Grove, Manteca (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NW of Concord, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Concord Elk Grove Fremont Manteca Oakland Parkway San Francisco San Jose Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.0345001° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.979332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NW of Concord, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-30 15:05:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-30 15:07:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	128	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	63	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72991830	Id of event.
Event Code	72991830	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72991830,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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