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Minor earthquake: M2.91 quake has struck near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0485001S, -118.7549973WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bodie in CA on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7549973 West, latitude 38.0485001 North, depth = 5.23 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 03:07:03 / April 15, 2020 @ 3:07 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.23 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:07:03 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73370810. Event ids that are associated: nc73370810, nn00722486.

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7549973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0485001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.23 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 2020-04-15 03:07:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 03:11:04 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 130 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2826 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 nc73370810 Id of event.
Event Code 73370810 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73370810,nn00722486, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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