== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
                      Rapid Earthquake Location Service
                 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
           U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, California

   Version 2: Updates lower and earlier versions of this earthquake report

This event has been reviewed by Rick Lester - USGS

A MODERATE EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 07:10 AM PDT Wednesday, Aug 12, 1998.
THE MAGNITUDE 5.4 (ML) EVENT IS LOCATED   7 MILES SSE OF SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, CA
THE HYPOCENTRAL DEPTH IS   5.6 MILES.

PRINCIPAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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Magnitude              : 5.4   ML
Event Date & Time      : 08/12/1998   07:10:25 AM PDT
                         08/12/1998   14:10:25    UTC
Location               : 36.7548 N, 121.4637 W
                       : (36 deg. 45.29 min. N, 121 deg. 27.82 min. W)
Depth                  :    9.0 km. deep (   5.6 miles)
Location Quality       : Good

 12 km (  7 miles) SSE (147 degrees) of San Juan Bautista, CA
 12 km (  8 miles) SSW (207 degrees) of Hollister, CA
 13 km (  8 miles) WSW (253 degrees) of Tres Pinos, CA
 18 km ( 11 miles) E   ( 97 degrees) of Prunedale, CA
 19 km ( 12 miles) ENE ( 63 degrees) of Salinas, CA

ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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number of phases             : 250
rms misfit                   :   0.19 seconds
horizontal location error    :   0.2  km
vertical location error      :   0.5  km
maximum azimuthal gap        :  35    degrees
distance to nearest station  :   4.   km

In region 2 (006) SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
event ID:   51061333
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NCSN First Motion Mechanism 1
UCB Moment Tensor Mechanism 1
Aftershock Warning
Seismogram image from UCB broadband station SAO

Data Sources:

Northern California - USGS = U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Northern California - UCB = University of California, Berkeley
Southern California - USGS = U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena
Southern California - Caltech = California Institute of Technology
Nevada - UNR = University of Nevada, Reno