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Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag has occurred near San Simeon in California

Posted by admin on July 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6824989S, -121.1233368WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Simeon in California. Exact location of earthquake, -121.1233368° West, 35.6824989° North, depth 6.09 km. The temblor was detected at 13:13:20 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.09 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72667671. Unique identifier: nc72667671. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/07/16 / 2016-07-28 20:13:20 / July 28, 2016 @ 8:13 pm.

The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Oceano, Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach (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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km NE of San Simeon, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1233368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6824989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2016-07-28 20:13:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-28 20:21:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 169 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 78 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 nc72667671 Id of event.
Event Code 72667671 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72667671, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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