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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag has occurred near Seven Trees in CA


Earthquake location 37.2868347S, -121.6633301WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Seven Trees in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -121.6633301 West, latitude 37.2868347 North, depth = 4.41 km. Id of earthquake: nc73021985. Event ids that are associated: nc73021985. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/18 / 2018-05-29 00:14:50 / May 29, 2018 @ 12:14 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.41 km (3 miles). The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:14:50 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oakland, Hughson, Piedmont. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km E of Seven Trees, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.6633301° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2868347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Seven Trees, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-29 00:14:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-29 00:24:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 138 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02888 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 nc73021985 Id of event.
Event Code 73021985 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73021985, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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