Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near San Ardo in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Ardo in CA on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/20 / 2020-09-21 04:53:54 / September 21, 2020 @ 4:53 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:53:54 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.58 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.6511688 West, latitude 36.0713348 North, depth = 3.58 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73460811. Unique identifier: nc73460811.

Event epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soledad, Lemoore Station, Cambria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 24 km ENE of San Ardo, CA.

Atascadero Avenal CA Cambria Greenfield Lemoore Station Paso Robles San Ardo Soledad United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.6511688° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0713348° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km ENE of San Ardo, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-21 04:53:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-21 04:58:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07017	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	149	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	nc73460811	Id of event.
Event Code	73460811	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73460811,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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