A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Boulder Creek in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/19 / 2019-04-18 21:35:29 / April 18, 2019 @ 9:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.92 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73168515. Unique identifier: nc73168515. Exact location of event, longitude -122.3441696 West, latitude 37.1780014 North, depth = 12.92 km. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:35:29 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hayward (c. 144 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tiburon, Danville, Berkeley (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 20 km WNW of Boulder Creek, CA.
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