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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag strikes near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.060833S, -118.730835WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bodie in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.56 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -118.730835° West, 38.060833° North, depth 11.56 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 07:20:04 / April 12, 2020 @ 7:20 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc73368605. Event ids that are associated: nc73368605. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:20:04 / 11:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.730835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.060833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2020-04-12 07:20:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 07:22:14 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 133 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2606 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 112 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 nc73368605 Id of event.
Event Code 73368605 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73368605, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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