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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near San Simeon in California

Posted by admin on August 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.7458333S, -121.1395WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Simeon in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 17:39:58 / August 1, 2016 @ 5:39 pm. Exact location, longitude -121.1395° West, latitude 35.7458333° North, depth = 5.62 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:39:58 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72668950. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72668950. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.62 km (3 miles).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Los Osos (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Obispo, Greenfield, Los Osos (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NNE of San Simeon, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.1395° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7458333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE 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 2016-08-01 17:39:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 22:58:16 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 reviewed 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 121 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.008365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mh The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72668950 Id of event.
Event Code 72668950 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72668950, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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