Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag has occurred near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0458336S, -118.7559967WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bodie in CA on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -118.7559967° West, 38.0458336° North, depth 8.1 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 20:23:02 / April 11, 2020 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc73367980. Event ids that are associated: nc73367980, nn00721772. The temblor was detected at 12:23:02 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

How would you describe the shaking?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 29 km SE of Bodie, CA.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7559967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0458336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km 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 2020-04-11 20:23:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 20:26:10 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 132 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2851 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 108 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 nc73367980 Id of event.
Event Code 73367980 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73367980,nn00721772, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply