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Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag was detected near San Juan Bautista in CA


Earthquake location 36.8428345S, -121.5784988WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73503535. Unique identifier: nc73503535. The temblor was reported at 19:05:47 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/12/20 / 2020-12-27 19:05:47 / December 27, 2020 @ 7:05 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.58 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -121.5784988 West, latitude 36.8428345 North, depth = 3.58 km.

The epicenter was 62 km (38 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). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patterson, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km W of San Juan Bautista, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.5784988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8428345° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2020-12-27 19:05:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-27 19:09:39 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 157 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 nc73503535 Id of event.
Event Code 73503535 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73503535, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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