Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag has occurred near King City in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from King City in California. The temblor was detected at 05:55:39 / 5:55 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.6 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.7938309° West, latitude 36.2999992° North, depth = 10.6 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72672430. Unique identifier: nc72672430. Global time and date of event 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 12:55:39 / August 9, 2016 @ 12:55 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Hollister (c. 34 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). 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 Hollister, Kerman, Lemoore Station.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.49 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.7938309° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2999992° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ENE of King City, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-09 12:55:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-09 13:00:53	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	2.86	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	187	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08414	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	nc72672430	Id of event.
Event Code	72672430	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72672430,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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