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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Berkeley in CA


Earthquake location 37.8668327S, -122.2434998WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Berkeley in CA. Global time and date of event 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 15:44:26 / April 13, 2019 @ 3:44 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc73165280. Event ids that are associated: nc73165280. Exact location of earthquake, -122.2434998° West, 37.8668327° North, depth 11.49 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.49 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:44:26 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Rosa (c. 167 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winters, Santa Rosa, Los Gatos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 3 km ESE of Berkeley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -122.2434998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.8668327° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE of Berkeley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-13 15:44:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-13 15:52:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 126 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 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 32 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 nc73165280 Id of event.
Event Code 73165280 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73165280, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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