Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Bonny Doon in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bonny Doon in CA on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.48 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:00:28 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -122.3669968 West, latitude 37.0895004 North, depth = 7.48 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/20 / 2020-08-06 16:00:28 / August 6, 2020 @ 4:00 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73439146. Unique identifier: nc73439146.

Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop). 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 Oakland, Salinas, Dublin.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 20 km WNW of Bonny Doon, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.3669968° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0895004° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km WNW of Bonny Doon, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-06 16:00:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-06 16:09:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	reviewed	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	153	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1101	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	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	nc73439146	Id of event.
Event Code	73439146	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73439146,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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