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Minor earthquake, 3.78 mag strikes near San Miguel Is. in California


Earthquake location 34.0555S, -120.6536636WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from San Miguel Is. in California. Exact location of event, longitude -120.6536636 West, latitude 34.0555 North, depth = 5.75 km. The 3.78-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:46:27 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ci37200503. Unique identifier: ci37200503. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.75 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/15 / 2015-07-07 18:46:27 / July 7, 2015 @ 6:46 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Goleta (c. 29 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Isla Vista (c. 23 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vandenberg Village (c. 6 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Solvang (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Goleta, Isla Vista, Solvang (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 27 km W of San Miguel Is., California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.78 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.6536636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km W of San Miguel Is., California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-07 18:46:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-07 18:55:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.87 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 reviewed 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 220 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2516 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262 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 ci37200503 Id of event.
Event Code 37200503 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37200503, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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