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Minor earthquake 3.77 mag, 33 km WSW of Lost Hills, California

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Lost Hills in California. Exact location of earthquake, -120.0291672° West, 35.4845009° North, depth 9.76 km. The 3.77-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:05:00 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.76 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ci37889959. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37889959. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/18 / 2018-03-07 18:05:00 / March 7, 2018 @ 6:05 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Greenacres, Earlimart, Rosedale. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Delano (c. 53 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Orcutt (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km WSW of Lost Hills, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.77 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.0291672° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.4845009° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km WSW of Lost Hills, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-07 18:05:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-07 18:08:21	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	3.49	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	219	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1721	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	40	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mlr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	ci37889959	Id of event.
Event Code	37889959	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ci37889959,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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