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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag was detected near Mammoth Lakes in California


Earthquake location 37.6363335S, -118.887001WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Tuesday. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:10:14 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72683796. Id of event: nc72683796. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.74 km (-0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 11:10:14 / August 23, 2016 @ 11:10 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -118.887001 West, latitude 37.6363335 North, depth = -0.74 km.

Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby 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.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 7 km E of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.887001° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6363335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km E 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 2016-08-23 11:10:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 11:13:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 124 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01121 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 111 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 nc72683796 Id of event.
Event Code 72683796 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72683796, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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