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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0441666S, -118.7578354WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Bodie in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7578354 West, latitude 38.0441666 North, depth = 2.21 km. Event id: nc73414291. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73414291. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:38:54 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 02:38:54 / June 23, 2020 @ 2:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.21 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days five hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7578354° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0441666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.21 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 2020-06-23 02:38:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 02:40:33 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 132 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 nc73414291 Id of event.
Event Code 73414291 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73414291, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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