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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 9 km SSE of San Juan Bautista, CA

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Earthquake location 36.7731667S, -121.5001678WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA. Event id: nc73365430. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73365430. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.77 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 21:26:06 / April 7, 2020 @ 9:26 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:26:06 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -121.5001678° West, latitude 36.7731667° North, depth = 7.77 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cupertino (c. 58 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cupertino, Santa Clara, Newman (min 5000 pop).

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 three and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of San Juan Bautista, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5001678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7731667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of San Juan Bautista, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-07 21:26:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-07 21:29:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 137 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 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 nc73365430 Id of event.
Event Code 73365430 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73365430, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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