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Minor earthquake 2.95 mag, 24 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California


Earthquake location 37.4835014S, -118.7823334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.86 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72676921. Id of event: nc72676921. Exact location, longitude -118.7823334° West, latitude 37.4835014° North, depth = 4.86 km. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:04:22 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 01:04:22 / August 14, 2016 @ 1:04 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7823334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4835014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SE 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 2016-08-14 01:04:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 01:09:09 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 134 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 nc72676921 Id of event.
Event Code 72676921 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72676921, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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