Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag strikes near Templeton in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Templeton in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -120.8083344 West, latitude 35.5498352 North, depth = 4.94 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.94 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/05/19 / 2019-05-03 05:22:38 / May 3, 2019 @ 5:22 am. The temblor was reported at 21:22:38 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73176070. Event ids that are associated: nc73176070.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcutt, Avenal, King City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Orcutt (c. 28 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.8083344° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5498352° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km W of Templeton, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-03 05:22:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-03 05:28:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.1	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	188	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0995	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	103	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	nc73176070	Id of event.
Event Code	73176070	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73176070,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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