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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag strikes near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0603333S, -118.7365036WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bodie in CA. Event id: nc73369790. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73369790, nn00722272. Exact location, longitude -118.7365036° West, latitude 38.0603333° North, depth = 4.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:27:45 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 14:27:45 / April 13, 2020 @ 2:27 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.3 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 29 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7365036° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0603333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.3 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 2020-04-13 14:27:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-13 14:32:30 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 154 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.264 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 90 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 nc73369790 Id of event.
Event Code 73369790 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73369790,nn00722272, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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