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Minor earthquake 3.88 mag, 6 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA


Earthquake location 37.4176674S, -118.362999WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73174010. Unique identifier: nc73174010. Exact location of event, depth 7.15 km, -118.362999° West, 37.4176674° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.15 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 17:37:01 / April 29, 2019 @ 5:37 pm. The 3.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:37:01 / 9:37 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.362999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4176674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 17:37:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 17:40:43 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 232 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 0.05375 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 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73174010 Id of event.
Event Code 73174010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73174010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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