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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag strikes near Coalinga in California


Earthquake location 35.9938316S, -120.55867WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Coalinga in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.73 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:56:44 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 16:56:44 / December 7, 2015 @ 4:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.55867 West, latitude 35.9938316 North, depth = 3.73 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72565431. Unique identifier: nc72565431.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Osos, San Luis Obispo, Lemoore. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SW of Coalinga, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.55867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9938316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SW of Coalinga, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-07 16:56:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-07 17:04:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 162 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02371 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 46 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 nc72565431 Id of event.
Event Code 72565431 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72565431, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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