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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near San Lucas in CA


Earthquake location 36.2464981S, -120.8219986WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from San Lucas in CA on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73324201. Unique identifier: nc73324201. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.44 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:13:33 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.44 km, -120.8219986° West, 36.2464981° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 02:13:33 / January 6, 2020 @ 2:13 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Firebaugh, Paso Robles, Mendota (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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 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: 22 km NE of San Lucas, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.8219986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2464981° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 2020-01-06 02:13:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 02:18:03 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 121 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 nc73324201 Id of event.
Event Code 73324201 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73324201, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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