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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag was detected near San Lucas in CA

Posted by admin on January 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2383347S, -120.838501WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from San Lucas in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.838501 West, latitude 36.2383347 North, depth = 5.03 km. Id of earthquake: nc73323271. Event ids that are associated: nc73323271. Global time and date of event 03/01/20 / 2020-01-03 16:40:16 / January 3, 2020 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:40:16 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.03 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambria, Templeton, Firebaugh. Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km NE of San Lucas, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.838501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2383347° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NE of San Lucas, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-03 16:40:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-03 16:46:04 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 182 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 nc73323271 Id of event.
Event Code 73323271 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73323271, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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