Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 13 km N of Cayucos, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cayucos in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -120.8679962 West, latitude 35.5598335 North, depth = 6.65 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.65 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:08:29 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/03/18 / 2018-03-08 08:08:29 / March 8, 2018 @ 8:08 am. Unique identifier: nc72980896. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72980896.

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coalinga, Santa Maria, King City. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km N of Cayucos, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.8679962° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5598335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km N of Cayucos, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-08 08:08:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-08 08:28:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	85	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	211	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	77	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07599	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	nc72980896	Id of event.
Event Code	72980896	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72980896,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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