A minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tres Pinos in CA. The temblor was detected at 23:32:28 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.5700001716614 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: nc75284991. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75284991, us7000rk95. Exact location of event, longitude -121.297996521 West, latitude 36.645668029785 North, depth = 5.5700001716614 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/25 / 2025-12-22 23:32:28 / December 22, 2025 @ 11:32 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Salinas (c. 150 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 59 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Watsonville (c. 51 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Gilroy (c. 48 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Morgan Hill (c. 37 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mendota, Firebaugh, Newman (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 16 km S of Tres Pinos, CA.

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