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Minor earthquake 3.01 mag, 24 km E of Lee Vining, CA


Earthquake location 37.965168S, -118.8516693WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Lee Vining in CA. The temblor was picked up at 10:02:23 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.61 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 18:02:23 / April 11, 2020 @ 6:02 pm. Id of earthquake: nc73367750. Event ids that are associated: nn00721712, nc73367750. Exact location, longitude -118.8516693° West, latitude 37.965168° North, depth = 4.61 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km E of Lee Vining, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8516693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.965168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km E of Lee Vining, 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 18:02:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 18:05:56 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 139 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 ,nn,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 nc73367750 Id of event.
Event Code 73367750 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00721712,nc73367750, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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