Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pinnacles in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.46 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:59:52 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.197998 West, latitude 36.6001663 North, depth = 5.46 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 03:59:52 / September 13, 2019 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73270665. Unique identifier: nc73270665.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Live Oak, Newman, Soquel (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 9 km NNW of Pinnacles, CA.

CA Gilroy Live Oak Los Banos Morgan Hill Newman Pinnacles Salinas Soquel United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.197998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6001663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNW of Pinnacles, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-13 03:59:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-13 04:03:09	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	2.7	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	178	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	55	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	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	nc73270665	Id of event.
Event Code	73270665	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73270665,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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