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Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near San Juan Bautista in CA

Posted by admin on March 31, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8603325S, -121.5931702WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA on Saturday. Id of earthquake: nc72992330. Event ids that are associated: nc72992330, us1000dbvr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.43 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 14:33:39 / March 31, 2018 @ 2:33 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -121.5931702° West, 36.8603325° North, depth 6.43 km. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:33:39 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View.

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

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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. 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: 5 km WNW of San Juan Bautista, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5931702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8603325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of San Juan Bautista, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-31 14:33:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-31 14:47:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 65 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 165 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0241 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 50 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 nc72992330 Id of event.
Event Code 72992330 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72992330,us1000dbvr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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