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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near San Juan Bautista in CA


Earthquake location 36.8433342S, -121.5739975WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA. Event id: nc73502035. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73502035. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.43 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -121.5739975 West, latitude 36.8433342 North, depth = 3.43 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 00:22:04 / December 24, 2020 @ 12:22 am. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:22:04 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Altos, Mountain View, Newman (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 3 km W of San Juan Bautista, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5739975° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8433342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of San Juan Bautista, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-24 00:22:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 00:23:54 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 128 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04409 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 nc73502035 Id of event.
Event Code 73502035 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73502035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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