Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near Milpitas in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Milpitas in CA. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73465746. Id of event: nc73465746. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.41 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.41 km, -121.8256683° West, 37.4943352° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/10/20 / 2020-10-02 15:39:59 / October 2, 2020 @ 3:39 pm. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:39:59 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter).

The 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 (43 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Gustine. 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 one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NE of Milpitas, CA.

CA Corte Madera Fremont Gustine Mill Valley Milpitas Oakland San Francisco San Jose Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.8256683° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4943352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.41 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	2020-10-02 15:39:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-02 15:43:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	132	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04569	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	nc73465746	Id of event.
Event Code	73465746	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73465746,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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