Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near San Ardo in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from San Ardo in CA on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: nc73077080. Event ids that are associated: nc73077080. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/08/18 / 2018-08-28 22:47:22 / August 28, 2018 @ 10:47 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -120.9816666 West, latitude 35.9378319 North, depth = 4.29 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.29 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:47:22 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Luis Obispo, Avenal, Gonzales (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.9816666° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9378319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.29 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SW 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	2018-08-28 22:47:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-29 00:54:30	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	3.8	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	reviewed	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	162	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	nc73077080	Id of event.
Event Code	73077080	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73077080,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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