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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag was detected near Tres Pinos in CA

Posted by admin on May 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6795006S, -121.3150024WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 16:38:34 / May 16, 2020 @ 4:38 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73388380. Unique identifier: nc73388380. Exact location of event, longitude -121.3150024 West, latitude 36.6795006 North, depth = 7.21 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:38:34 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.21 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Close 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 Firebaugh, Newman, Scotts Valley.

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km S of Tres Pinos, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3150024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6795006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S 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 2020-05-16 16:38:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 16:41:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 167 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73388380 Id of event.
Event Code 73388380 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73388380, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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