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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 48 km ESE of Bridgeport, California


Earthquake location 38.0516S, -118.7413WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Bridgeport in California. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00722413. Unique identifier: nn00722413. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:26:12 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.7413° West, latitude 38.0516° North, depth = 11.1 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 15:26:12 / April 14, 2020 @ 3:26 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 48 km ESE of Bridgeport, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7413° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km ESE of Bridgeport, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-14 15:26:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-14 16:24:58 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 reviewed 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1372 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60.53 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 nn00722413 Id of event.
Event Code 00722413 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00722413, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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