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Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag has occurred near Big Pine in California


Earthquake location 37.1636658S, -118.3708344WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Big Pine in California on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 23:28:44 / 11:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72597525. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72597525. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.81 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.3708344 West, latitude 37.1636658 North, depth = 12.81 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/02/16 / 2016-02-25 07:28:44 / February 25, 2016 @ 7:28 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km W of Big Pine, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.3708344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1636658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km W of Big Pine, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-25 07:28:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-25 07:45:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.23 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 reviewed 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 201 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc72597525 Id of event.
Event Code 72597525 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72597525, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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