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Minor earthquake 3.44 mag, 2 km E of Aromas, CA


Earthquake location 36.8861656S, -121.6255035WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Aromas in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.6255035 West, latitude 36.8861656 North, depth = 5.95 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.95 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73397161. Id of event: nc73397161. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 17:02:01 / May 27, 2020 @ 5:02 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:02:01 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was North Fair Oaks, Woodside, Atherton (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km E of Aromas, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.6255035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8861656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km E of Aromas, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-27 17:02:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 17:06:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 184 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 nc73397161 Id of event.
Event Code 73397161 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73397161, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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