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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag strikes near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:11:25 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.8513336 West, latitude 34.5771675 North, depth = 0 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 20:11:25 / July 18, 2015 @ 8:11 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ci37209439. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci37209439.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Orcutt (c. 28 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Nipomo (c. 16 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pismo Beach, Solvang, Arroyo Grande (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 36 km WSW of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.08 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.8513336° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.5771675° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km WSW of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-18 20:11:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-18 20:14:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	146	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ci	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	216	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	ci37209439	Id of event.
Event Code	37209439	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37209439,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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