Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag strikes near Milpitas in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Milpitas in CA on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 16:02:30 / September 29, 2020 @ 4:02 pm. Exact location of event, depth 4.3 km, -121.8286667° West, 37.4931679° North. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:02:30 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73464301. Id of event: nc73464301. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.3 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kentfield, San Rafael, Castroville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Milpitas, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Castroville Fremont Kentfield Milpitas Oakland San Francisco San Jose San Rafael Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8286667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4931679° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NE of Milpitas, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-29 16:02:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-29 16:09:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	40	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	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	185	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	70	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04425	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	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	nc73464301	Id of event.
Event Code	73464301	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73464301,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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