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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag was detected near Mammoth Lakes in California


Earthquake location 37.6033325S, -118.8206635WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Thursday. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:01:04 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.51 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -118.8206635° West, 37.6033325° North, depth 4.51 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/17 / 2017-11-02 12:01:04 / November 2, 2017 @ 12:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72917681. Unique identifier: nc72917681.

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 14 km ESE 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 -118.8206635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6033325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2017-11-02 12:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-02 12:04:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01488 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 68 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 nc72917681 Id of event.
Event Code 72917681 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72917681, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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