Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near Gilroy in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Gilroy in CA on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 09:25:14 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75019667. Unique identifier: nc75019667. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/06/24 / 2024-06-09 09:25:14 / June 9, 2024 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -121.62100219727° West, 36.964332580566° North, depth 5.0199999809265 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.0199999809265 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Redwood City, Greenfield, Union City.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 7 km WSW of Gilroy, CA.

CA Fremont Gilroy Greenfield Redwood City Salinas San Jose Santa Clara Sunnyvale Union City United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.62100219727° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.964332580566° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.0199999809265 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km WSW 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	2024-06-09 09:25:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-09 09:29:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	162	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		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	35	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	nc75019667	Id of event.
Event Code	75019667	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75019667,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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