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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag was detected near San Simeon in California

Posted by admin on September 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.793335S, -121.393837WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Simeon in California on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/15 / 2015-09-28 13:30:48 / September 28, 2015 @ 1:30 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -121.393837 West, latitude 35.793335 North, depth = 7.66 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:30:48 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72531831. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72531831. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.66 km (5 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Los Osos (c. 14 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Osos, Atascadero, Soledad (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 24 km NW of San Simeon, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.393837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.793335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km NW of San Simeon, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-28 13:30:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-28 13:36:04 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 131 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 nc72531831 Id of event.
Event Code 72531831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72531831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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