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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Yosemite Valley in CA


Earthquake location 37.6351662S, -119.4161682WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Yosemite Valley in CA. Unique identifier: nc73389906. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73389906. Exact location of event, longitude -119.4161682 West, latitude 37.6351662 North, depth = 12.27 km. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:53:56 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 06:53:56 / May 19, 2020 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.27 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-three 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. 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: 18 km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.4161682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6351662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SE of Yosemite Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-19 06:53:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 06:58:18 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 138 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3062 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 nc73389906 Id of event.
Event Code 73389906 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73389906, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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