Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near Templeton in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Templeton in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 10:05:46 / May 3, 2019 @ 10:05 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73176190. Unique identifier: nc73176190. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.44 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.8095016 West, latitude 35.5488319 North, depth = 5.44 km. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:05:46 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coalinga, Santa Maria, Guadalupe (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km W of Templeton, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.8095016° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5488319° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.44 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km W of Templeton, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-03 10:05:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-03 10:13:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	139	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09989	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	nc73176190	Id of event.
Event Code	73176190	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73176190,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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