Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pinnacles in CA on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75123366. Unique identifier: nc75123366. Exact location of event, depth 5.8600001335144 km, -121.27532958984° West, 36.626499176025° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 14:56:32 / January 26, 2025 @ 2:56 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.8600001335144 km (4 miles). The 3.11-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:56:32 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Newman, Santa Cruz, Firebaugh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 16 km NW of Pinnacles, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Firebaugh Gilroy Morgan Hill Newman Pinnacles Salinas Santa Cruz United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.11 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.27532958984° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.626499176025° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8600001335144 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NW of Pinnacles, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-26 14:56:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-26 14:58:35	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	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03528	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	nc75123366	Id of event.
Event Code	75123366	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75123366,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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