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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag strikes near Mammoth Lakes in CA


Earthquake location 37.5501671S, -118.8871689WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:05:38 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73411671. Event ids that are associated: nc73411671. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8871689 West, latitude 37.5501671 North, depth = 5.58 km. Global time and date of event 19/06/20 / 2020-06-19 03:05:38 / June 19, 2020 @ 3:05 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.58 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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 twelve, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 13 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8871689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5501671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-19 03:05:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 03:09:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 nc73411671 Id of event.
Event Code 73411671 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73411671, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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