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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Orcutt in CA

Posted by admin on December 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.8520012S, -120.3929977WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Orcutt in CA. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 18:04:34 / December 23, 2018 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -120.3929977° West, 34.8520012° North, depth 0.18 km. The temblor was detected at 10:04:34 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ci38404744. Event ids that are associated: ci38404744. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.18 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 88 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Goleta (c. 29 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Barbara, Atascadero, Morro Bay (min 5000 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 one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km ESE of Orcutt, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.3929977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.8520012° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ESE of Orcutt, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-23 18:04:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-23 18:06:47 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 167 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 ci38404744 Id of event.
Event Code 38404744 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38404744, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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