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Minor earthquake, 3.79 mag has occurred near Templeton in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Templeton in CA on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.7945022583 West, latitude 35.556167602539 North, depth = 5.2199997901917 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.2199997901917 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/12/25 / 2025-12-12 23:30:31 / December 12, 2025 @ 11:30 pm. Unique identifier: nc75278896. Ids that are associated to the event: ew1765582230, nc75278896. The temblor was detected at 23:30:31 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 75 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), 13 km (8 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Orcutt, King City, Avenal (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 8 km W of Templeton, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.79 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.7945022583° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.556167602539° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.2199997901917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km 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	2025-12-12 23:30:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-12 23:35:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	224	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	,ew,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1082	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	48	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	nc75278896	Id of event.
Event Code	75278896	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1765582230,nc75278896,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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