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Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 28 km WSW of Lompoc, CA


Earthquake location 34.5311667S, -120.7353333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Lompoc in CA on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/17 / 2017-09-04 19:46:30 / September 4, 2017 @ 7:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -120.7353333° West, 34.5311667° North, depth 1.55 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:46:30 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.55 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37754879. Unique identifier: ci37754879.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Orcutt (c. 28 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Nipomo (c. 16 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pismo Beach, Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 28 km WSW of Lompoc, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.7353333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5311667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km WSW of Lompoc, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-04 19:46:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-04 19:50:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 127 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 ci37754879 Id of event.
Event Code 37754879 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37754879, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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