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Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 8 km W of Templeton, CA

Posted by admin on December 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.548831939697S, -120.79149627685WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Templeton in CA on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 23:41:47 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc75286356. Unique identifier: nc75286356. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 23:41:47 / December 25, 2025 @ 11:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.6599998474121 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.6599998474121 km, -120.79149627685° West, 35.548831939697° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coalinga, Santa Maria, Guadalupe. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Santa Maria (c. 99 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from San Luis Obispo (c. 45 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Atascadero (c. 28 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Paso Robles (c. 27 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arroyo Grande (c. 17 300 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km W of Templeton, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.79149627685° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.548831939697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6599998474121 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 2025-12-25 23:41:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-25 23:46:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 nc75286356 Id of event.
Event Code 75286356 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75286356, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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