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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag has occurred near King City in California

Posted by admin on October 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2328339S, -120.8034973WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from King City in California. Global time and date of event 19/10/15 / 2015-10-19 06:49:03 / October 19, 2015 @ 6:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.14 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72540320. Unique identifier: nc72540320. Exact location of event, depth 7.14 km, -120.8034973° West, 36.2328339° North. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:03 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambria, Templeton, Firebaugh (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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: 29 km E of King City, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.8034973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2328339° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km E of King City, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-19 06:49:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-19 06:54:05 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 132 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 84 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 nc72540320 Id of event.
Event Code 72540320 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72540320, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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