A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Coalinga in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.73 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:56:44 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 16:56:44 / December 7, 2015 @ 4:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.55867 West, latitude 35.9938316 North, depth = 3.73 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72565431. Unique identifier: nc72565431.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Osos, San Luis Obispo, Lemoore. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SW of Coalinga, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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