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Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 5 km SSE of Santa Ynez, California


Earthquake location 34.5719986S, -120.0534973WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Santa Ynez in California. Exact location of earthquake, -120.0534973° West, 34.5719986° North, depth 10.99 km. The temblor was detected at 02:16:41 / 2:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 09:16:41 / July 17, 2016 @ 9:16 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ci37417111. Ids that are associated to the event: ci37417111. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.99 km (7 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ventura (c. 96 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Barbara (c. 88 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Lompoc (c. 42 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Goleta (c. 29 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Grover Beach, Arroyo Grande, Oceano.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km SSE of Santa Ynez, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0534973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5719986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Santa Ynez, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-17 09:16:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-17 09:19:10 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 176 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03757 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 ci37417111 Id of event.
Event Code 37417111 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci37417111, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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