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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag has occurred near San Juan Bautista in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan Bautista in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/04/25 / 2025-04-20 04:25:45 / April 20, 2025 @ 4:25 am. The temblor was detected at 04:25:45 / 4:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.56883239746 West, latitude 36.826332092285 North, depth = 5.9699997901917 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.9699997901917 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75168506. Id of event: nc75168506.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from San Jose (c. 945 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sunnyvale (c. 140 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 116 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mountain View (c. 74 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Altos, Mountain View, Milpitas.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km WSW of San Juan Bautista, CA.

CA Los Altos Milpitas Mountain View Salinas San Jose San Juan Bautista Santa Clara Sunnyvale United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.96 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.56883239746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.826332092285° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.9699997901917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km WSW of San Juan Bautista, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-20 04:25:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-20 04:29:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	135	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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02847	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	nc75168506	Id of event.
Event Code	75168506	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75168506,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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