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Minor earthquake 2.84 mag, 20 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California


Earthquake location 37.5161667S, -118.8093338WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8093338 West, latitude 37.5161667 North, depth = 0.76 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72833621. Id of event: nc72833621. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.76 km (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/17 / 2017-07-11 01:37:25 / July 11, 2017 @ 1:37 am. The temblor was picked up at 17:37:25 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 20 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8093338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5161667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2017-07-11 01:37:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-11 01:40:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 nc72833621 Id of event.
Event Code 72833621 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72833621, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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