Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near San Simeon in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Simeon in California. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:38:28 / 10:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/16 / 2016-04-07 05:38:28 / April 7, 2016 @ 5:38 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.67 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.67 km, -121.1054993° West, 35.722332° North. Id of earthquake: nc72618685. Event ids that are associated: nc72618685.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Grover Beach, Pismo Beach, Greenfield. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Los Osos (c. 14 300 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NE of San Simeon, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-121.1054993° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.722332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NE 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	2016-04-07 05:38:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-07 05:51:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	156	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1219	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	90	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	nc72618685	Id of event.
Event Code	72618685	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72618685,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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