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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 13 km NE of San Simeon, California


Earthquake location 35.7296677S, -121.0910034WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Simeon in California. Id of earthquake: nc72753295. Event ids that are associated: nc72753295. Exact location of earthquake, -121.0910034° West, 35.7296677° North, depth 7.02 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/01/17 / 2017-01-17 14:55:29 / January 17, 2017 @ 2:55 pm. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:55:29 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.02 km (4 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soledad, Grover Beach, Coalinga. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 13 km NE of San Simeon, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.0910034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7296677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2017-01-17 14:55:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-17 15:07:31 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 159 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06966 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 85 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 nc72753295 Id of event.
Event Code 72753295 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72753295, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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