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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Simmler in CA

Posted by admin on April 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.5211678S, -120.0749969WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Simmler in CA. Id of earthquake: nc72995846. Event ids that are associated: nc72995846. Exact location, longitude -120.0749969° West, latitude 35.5211678° North, depth = 12.74 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/04/18 / 2018-04-05 20:22:41 / April 5, 2018 @ 8:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:22:41 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.74 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Wasco (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was McFarland, Guadalupe, Huron (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 20 km NNW of Simmler, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0749969° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.5211678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NNW of Simmler, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-05 20:22:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-05 20:28:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 141 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05786 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 115 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 nc72995846 Id of event.
Event Code 72995846 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72995846, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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