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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near San Ardo in CA

Posted by admin on March 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0048332S, -120.8811646WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Ardo in CA on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles). The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:31 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72990286. Unique identifier: nc72990286. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/03/18 / 2018-03-26 06:52:31 / March 26, 2018 @ 6:52 am. Exact location, longitude -120.8811646° West, latitude 36.0048332° North, depth = 9.7 km.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gonzales, Huron, Morro Bay.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 five and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 3 km SE of San Ardo, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.8811646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0048332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE of San Ardo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-26 06:52:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-26 07:02:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 125 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02104 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72990286 Id of event.
Event Code 72990286 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72990286, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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