Minor earthquake 3 mag, 0 km E of Aromas, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Aromas in CA. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 05:10:28 / January 9, 2025 @ 5:10 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.0300002098083 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -121.63933563232° West, latitude 36.889331817627° North, depth = 7.0300002098083 km. Event id: nc75114761. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75114761. The temblor was detected at 05:10:28 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patterson, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 0 km E of Aromas, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.63933563232° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.889331817627° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.0300002098083 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0 km E of Aromas, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-09 05:10:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-09 05:12:31	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	138	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04524	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	nc75114761	Id of event.
Event Code	75114761	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75114761,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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