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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag has occurred near San Lucas in CA

Posted by admin on January 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.223834991455S, -120.81466674805WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from San Lucas in CA. Unique identifier: nc75113596. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75113596. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.1199998855591 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -120.81466674805 West, latitude 36.223834991455 North, depth = 8.1199998855591 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:20:38 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 14:20:38 / January 6, 2025 @ 2:20 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambria, Templeton, Mendota (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km ENE of San Lucas, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.81466674805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.223834991455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1199998855591 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km ENE of San Lucas, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-06 14:20:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-06 14:24:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 125 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01342 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 64 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 nc75113596 Id of event.
Event Code 75113596 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75113596, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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