Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Gilroy in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Gilroy in CA on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.54 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: nc73470891. Event ids that are associated: nc73470891. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/10/20 / 2020-10-14 23:27:32 / October 14, 2020 @ 11:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.5376663 West, latitude 36.9376678 North, depth = 1.54 km. The temblor was detected at 23:27:32 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Greenfield, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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 eight and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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. 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: 8 km SSE of Gilroy, CA.

CA Gilroy Greenfield Los Altos Los Altos Hills Mountain View Salinas San Jose Santa Clara Sunnyvale United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.5376663° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9376678° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSE of Gilroy, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-14 23:27:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-14 23:29:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	122	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1874	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	nc73470891	Id of event.
Event Code	73470891	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73470891,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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