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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag has occurred near Mammoth Lakes in CA

Posted by admin on March 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6559982S, -118.8436661WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA on Saturday. Unique identifier: nc72985476. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72985476. The temblor was reported at 08:23:22 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 16:23:22 / March 17, 2018 @ 4:23 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.81 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8436661 West, latitude 37.6559982 North, depth = 2.81 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8436661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6559982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-17 16:23:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 16:28:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 136 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 0.01904 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 61 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 nc72985476 Id of event.
Event Code 72985476 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72985476, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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