Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Pleasant Hill in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pleasant Hill in CA. Exact location, longitude -122.03283691406° West, latitude 37.9375° North, depth = 16.920000076294 km. Id of earthquake: nc75149901. Event ids that are associated: nc75149901. Global time and date of event 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 04:19:12 / March 17, 2025 @ 4:19 am UTC/GMT. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:19:12 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.920000076294 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laguna, Saratoga, Saint Helena (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Francisco (c. 805 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Oakland (c. 390 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Stockton (c. 291 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Fremont (c. 214 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 3 km SE of Pleasant Hill, CA.

CA Fremont Laguna Oakland Pleasant Hill Saint Helena San Francisco San Jose Saratoga Stockton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-122.03283691406° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9375° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.920000076294 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km SE of Pleasant Hill, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-17 04:19:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-17 04:20:47	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	126	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09025	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	nc75149901	Id of event.
Event Code	75149901	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75149901,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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