Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Parkfield in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Parkfield in CA. The temblor was detected at 16:47:11 / 4:47 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73131821. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73131821. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/19 / 2019-01-11 00:47:11 / January 11, 2019 @ 12:47 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.35 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -120.5801697° West, latitude 36.0058327° North, depth = 4.35 km.

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morro Bay, Greenfield, Lemoore Station (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty 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 quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km NW of Parkfield, CA.

Atascadero Avenal CA Coalinga Greenfield Lemoore Station Morro Bay Parkfield Paso Robles United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.5801697° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0058327° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NW of Parkfield, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-11 00:47:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-11 00:52:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03279	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	nc73131821	Id of event.
Event Code	73131821	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73131821,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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