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Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near San Simeon in California

Posted by admin on March 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7988319S, -121.3288345WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from San Simeon in California. Exact location, longitude -121.3288345° West, latitude 35.7988319° North, depth = 6.89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.89 km (4 miles). The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:16:58 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/03/16 / 2016-03-01 19:16:58 / March 1, 2016 @ 7:16 pm. Event id: nc72600555. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72600555.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Osos, Soledad, Atascadero. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Los Osos (c. 14 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 21 km NW of San Simeon, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.3288345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7988319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2016-03-01 19:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-01 19:20:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 nc72600555 Id of event.
Event Code 72600555 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72600555, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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