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Minor earthquake: M2.88 quake has struck near San Simeon in CA

Posted by admin on September 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.729332S, -121.0828323WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from San Simeon in CA on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -121.0828323 West, latitude 35.729332 North, depth = 6.41 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.41 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:41:53 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73090296. Event ids that are associated: nc73090296. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/18 / 2018-09-27 00:41:53 / September 27, 2018 @ 12:41 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pismo Beach, Greenfield, San Luis Obispo. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Los Osos (c. 14 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NE of San Simeon, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -121.0828323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.729332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE of San Simeon, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-27 00:41:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-27 00:47:02 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 128 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 nc73090296 Id of event.
Event Code 73090296 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73090296, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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