Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near Los Olivos in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Los Olivos in CA on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.77 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/09/17 / 2017-09-22 00:37:40 / September 22, 2017 @ 12:37 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72896526, ci38007600. Unique identifier: ci38007600. Exact location of earthquake, -120.1693333° West, 34.7316667° North, depth 0.77 km. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:37:40 / 4:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 88 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Goleta (c. 29 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis Obispo, Carpinteria, Pismo Beach. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km NW of Los Olivos, CA.

CA Carpinteria Goleta Lompoc Los Olivos Pismo Beach San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Maria United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.1693333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.7316667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NW of Los Olivos, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-22 00:37:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-22 00:42:12	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	123	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	,nc,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09119	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	ci38007600	Id of event.
Event Code	38007600	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72896526,ci38007600,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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