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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in CA

Posted by admin on March 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.659668S, -118.8441696WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8441696 West, latitude 37.659668 North, depth = 2.84 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 17:45:35 / March 17, 2018 @ 5:45 pm. Id of earthquake: nc72985536. Event ids that are associated: nc72985536. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.84 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:45:35 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter).

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

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-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ENE of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8441696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.659668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ENE 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 17:45:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 17:50:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 129 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02265 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 62 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 nc72985536 Id of event.
Event Code 72985536 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72985536, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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