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Minor earthquake: M2.99 quake has struck near San Ardo in CA


Earthquake location 36.1943321S, -120.7669983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from San Ardo in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -120.7669983° West, 36.1943321° North, depth 7.53 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73007941. Unique identifier: nc73007941. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 01:17:08 / April 29, 2018 @ 1:17 am. The temblor was picked up at 17:17:08 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.53 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lemoore Station, Cambria, Templeton (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 23 km NNE of San Ardo, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.7669983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1943321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of San Ardo, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-29 01:17:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-29 01:32:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73007941 Id of event.
Event Code 73007941 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73007941, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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