Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Parkfield in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Parkfield in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/25 / 2025-07-08 23:34:15 / July 8, 2025 @ 11:34 pm. Exact location, longitude -120.47750091553° West, latitude 35.924331665039° North, depth = 9.710000038147 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:34:15 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.710000038147 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc75207262. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75207262.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Osos, Lemoore, San Luis Obispo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lemoore (c. 24 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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 NW of Parkfield, CA.

Atascadero Avenal CA Lemoore Los Osos Parkfield Paso Robles San Luis Obispo United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.47750091553° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.924331665039° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.710000038147 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NW of Parkfield, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-08 23:34:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-08 23:39:04	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	127	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	58	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02281	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	nc75207262	Id of event.
Event Code	75207262	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75207262,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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