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Minor earthquake 2.84 mag, 4 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA


Earthquake location 37.6361656S, -118.9368362WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -118.9368362° West, 37.6361656° North, depth 6.75 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73273220. Id of event: nc73273220. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:52:18 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/09/19 / 2019-09-14 12:52:18 / September 14, 2019 @ 12:52 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.75 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. Event epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9368362° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6361656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2019-09-14 12:52:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-14 12:56:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 124 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02632 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 73 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 nc73273220 Id of event.
Event Code 73273220 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73273220, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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