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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Los Osos in California

Posted by admin on July 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3036652S, -120.9840012WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Los Osos in California. Id of earthquake: nc72494701. Event ids that are associated: nc72494701. Exact location of event, depth 4.82 km, -120.9840012° West, 35.3036652° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:40:22 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 00:40:22 / July 26, 2015 @ 12:40 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.82 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Orcutt (c. 28 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcutt, Santa Maria, Nipomo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km W of Los Osos, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.9840012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3036652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km W of Los Osos, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 00:40:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 00:45:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 138 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 nc72494701 Id of event.
Event Code 72494701 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72494701, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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