Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Parkfield in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Parkfield in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/20 / 2020-02-15 01:08:00 / February 15, 2020 @ 1:08 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.94 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -120.4851685° West, 35.9399986° North, depth 9.94 km. Id of earthquake: nc73341190. Event ids that are associated: nc73341190. The temblor was picked up at 17:08:00 / 5:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Osos, San Luis Obispo, Lemoore.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.4851685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9399986° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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	2020-02-15 01:08:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-15 01:10:04	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	137	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	0.01281	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	nc73341190	Id of event.
Event Code	73341190	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73341190,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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