Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag was detected near San Lucas in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from San Lucas in CA on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.5100002288818 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/25 / 2025-12-20 07:51:35 / December 20, 2025 @ 7:51 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nc75283226. Ids that are associated to the event: nc75283226. The 3.35-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:51:35 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.83183288574 West, latitude 36.238498687744 North, depth = 6.5100002288818 km.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Soledad (c. 25 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Greenfield (c. 16 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Avenal (c. 15 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Coalinga (c. 13 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cambria, Templeton, Firebaugh. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km NE of San Lucas, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Avenal CA Cambria Coalinga Firebaugh Greenfield Paso Robles San Lucas Soledad Templeton United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.35 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.83183288574° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.238498687744° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.5100002288818 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NE 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	2025-12-20 07:51:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-20 07:58:32	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	173	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03346	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	nc75283226	Id of event.
Event Code	75283226	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75283226,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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