Recorded in Soquel · Regional earthquake
M3.8 earthquake near San Ramon, CA, February 2, 2026 at 6:27 AM, recorded in Soquel
83 km (52 miles) from the Soquel seismic station — confirmed against the USGS catalog.
| Magnitude (USGS) | M3.8 |
|---|---|
| Location (USGS) | 4 km SSE of San Ramon, CA |
| Origin time | February 2, 2026 at 6:27 AM PST 2026-02-02 14:27:00 UTC |
| Distance from Soquel | 83 km · 52 miles |
| Peak ground motion at Soquel | 6,446 counts (raw amplitude — how hard the ground moved here, not the earthquake's size) |
| Station | EQ-1 short-period seismograph, Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California — about six miles from the 1989 Loma Prieta epicenter |
| Verify | USGS catalog, ±10 minutes around this origin |
What this page is. The station's automated detector flagged a burst of ground motion at this time, and matching it against the USGS ANSS catalog identified it as this earthquake. Magnitude and location are USGS's — a single home station cannot compute them. The one thing measured here is how hard the ground in Soquel moved.
Station recording · the helicorder that day
The live helicorder — what the ground is doing right now
This is the same instrument, live. The 24-hour trace below shows current ground motion in Soquel, refreshed every five minutes. February 2, 2026 has scrolled off this window; the recording of that day lives in the station catalog.
Live Helicorder · Seismic Activity ● Live · updates every 5 min
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