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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0718346S, -118.8786697WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Bodie in CA. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:01:24 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 17:01:24 / November 29, 2018 @ 5:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73117116. Unique identifier: nc73117116. Exact location, longitude -118.8786697° West, latitude 38.0718346° North, depth = 17.58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.58 km (11 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8786697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0718346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE of Bodie, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-29 17:01:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-29 17:07:02 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 125 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 nc73117116 Id of event.
Event Code 73117116 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73117116, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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