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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag has occurred near San Martin in CA


Earthquake location 37.1253319S, -121.5295029WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from San Martin in CA on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 16:00:07 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.5295029° West, latitude 37.1253319° North, depth = 7.63 km. Id of earthquake: nc73042391. Event ids that are associated: nc73042391. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/18 / 2018-07-10 00:00:07 / July 10, 2018 @ 12:00 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Modesto (c. 201 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castro Valley, Soledad, Cherryland.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km ENE of San Martin, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5295029° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1253319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of San Martin, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-10 00:00:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-10 00:07:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 153 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07145 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 58 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 nc73042391 Id of event.
Event Code 73042391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73042391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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