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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near West Bishop in California


Earthquake location 37.5333328S, -118.668663WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from West Bishop in California on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -118.668663 West, latitude 37.5333328 North, depth = 11.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.65 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/07/15 / 2015-07-13 23:52:35 / July 13, 2015 @ 11:52 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:52:35 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72485081. Id of event: nc72485081.

Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km NW of West Bishop, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.668663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5333328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km NW of West Bishop, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-13 23:52:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-13 23:58:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 148 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 nc72485081 Id of event.
Event Code 72485081 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72485081, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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