Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag strikes near Clayton in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Clayton in CA on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/24 / 2024-12-25 07:36:45 / December 25, 2024 @ 7:36 am. Unique identifier: nc75107686. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75107686. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.220000267029 km (8 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:36:45 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.98283386231 West, latitude 37.89966583252 North, depth = 13.220000267029 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elk Grove, Ripon, Laguna. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 6 km SW of Clayton, CA.

CA Clayton Elk Grove Fremont Laguna Oakland Ripon San Francisco San Jose Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.98283386231° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.89966583252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.220000267029 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SW of Clayton, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-25 07:36:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-25 07:44:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	35	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	149	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	82	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04149	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	59	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	nc75107686	Id of event.
Event Code	75107686	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75107686,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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