Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag has occurred near Pinnacles in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Pinnacles in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.5799999237061 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc75149401. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75149401. The temblor was reported at 02:42:13 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/25 / 2025-03-16 02:42:13 / March 16, 2025 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -121.18482971191 West, latitude 36.551666259766 North, depth = 5.5799999237061 km.

Event epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Los Banos (c. 36 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gustine, Aptos, Rio Del Mar (min 5000 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 4 km NW of Pinnacles, CA.

Aptos CA Gilroy Gustine Los Banos Morgan Hill Pinnacles Rio Del Mar Salinas United States Watsonville

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.18482971191° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.551666259766° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.5799999237061 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 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	2025-03-16 02:42:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-16 02:44:35	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	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	73	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	nc75149401	Id of event.
Event Code	75149401	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75149401,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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