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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0473328S, -118.7633362WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.77 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 20/04/20 / 2020-04-20 21:22:39 / April 20, 2020 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -118.7633362° West, 38.0473328° North, depth 2.77 km. The temblor was detected at 13:22:39 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73374055. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73374055.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 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 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7633362° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0473328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2020-04-20 21:22:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-20 21:24:18 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 122 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 nc73374055 Id of event.
Event Code 73374055 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73374055, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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