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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Mammoth Lakes in California


Earthquake location 37.6021652S, -118.7851639WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Id of earthquake: nc72527601. Event ids that are associated: nc72527601. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.44 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 17:10:25 / September 22, 2015 @ 5:10 pm. Exact location of event, depth 7.44 km, -118.7851639° West, 37.6021652° North. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:25 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 17 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7851639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6021652° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-22 17:10:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-22 17:15:06 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 123 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03695 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 90 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 nc72527601 Id of event.
Event Code 72527601 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72527601, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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