A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 13:28:35 / April 16, 2020 @ 1:28 pm. Id of earthquake: nc73371650. Event ids that are associated: nc73371650. The temblor was detected at 05:28:35 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7576675 West, latitude 38.0526657 North, depth = 6.8 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.8 km (4 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SE of Bodie, CA.
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