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Minor earthquake 2.92 mag, 1 km ENE of Tres Pinos, CA


Earthquake location 36.7941666S, -121.3095016WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude -121.3095016 West, latitude 36.7941666 North, depth = 9.93 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/19 / 2019-08-03 07:56:19 / August 3, 2019 @ 7:56 am UTC/GMT. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:56:19 / 11:56 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73241351. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73241351. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.93 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campbell, Alum Rock, Patterson. Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Campbell (c. 39 300 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km ENE of Tres Pinos, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3095016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7941666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ENE of Tres Pinos, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-03 07:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-03 08:02:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 131 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09758 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 nc73241351 Id of event.
Event Code 73241351 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73241351, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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