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Magnitude 3.2 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 09:34:05 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

World Location

Regional Location

Magnitude 3.2
Date-Time Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 09:34:05 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 01:34:05 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 35.78N 120.33W
Depth 9.3 kilometers
Region CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Reference 30 km (20 miles) SW of Avenal, California
40 km (25 miles) ENE of Paso Robles, California
40 km (25 miles) S of Coalinga, California
325 km (205 miles) SSE of SACRAMENTO, California
Location Quality Error estimate not available, held by USGS NEIC to another agency's solution
Location Quality
Parameters
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Source Northern California Seismic Network, UC Berkeley & USGS Menlo Park, USA

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