Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Toms Place in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Toms Place in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.12 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8796692 West, latitude 37.4510002 North, depth = 3.12 km. The temblor was detected at 23:51:22 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/07/19 / 2019-07-19 07:51:22 / July 19, 2019 @ 7:51 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73228491. Id of event: nc73228491.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8796692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4510002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km SW of Toms Place, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-07-19 07:51:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-07-19 07:54:23	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	121	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	0.1445	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	133	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	nc73228491	Id of event.
Event Code	73228491	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73228491,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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