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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Cholame in CA

Posted by admin on March 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8014984S, -120.3463364WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cholame in CA on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.3 km (6 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:36:43 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -120.3463364° West, 35.8014984° North, depth 10.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/03/19 / 2019-03-02 20:36:43 / March 2, 2019 @ 8:36 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73147341. Unique identifier: nc73147341.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lemoore, Cambria, Los Osos (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNW of Cholame, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.3463364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8014984° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNW of Cholame, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-02 20:36:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-02 20:43:03 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02893 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 64 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 nc73147341 Id of event.
Event Code 73147341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73147341, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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