Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Brentwood in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Brentwood in CA. Exact location, longitude -121.76833343506° West, latitude 37.865501403809° North, depth = 17.469999313354 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75034182. Id of event: nc75034182. The temblor was picked up at 21:46:12 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/07/24 / 2024-07-12 21:46:12 / July 12, 2024 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.469999313354 km (11 miles).

Nearby 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 Florin, Sonoma, Vineyard. Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop).

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

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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: 8 km SW of Brentwood, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Brentwood CA Florin Fremont Oakland San Francisco San Jose Sonoma Stockton United States Vineyard

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.76833343506° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.865501403809° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.469999313354 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SW of Brentwood, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-12 21:46:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-12 21:48:14	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	130	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	0.1113	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	nc75034182	Id of event.
Event Code	75034182	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75034182,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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