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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Mono City in California


Earthquake location 37.9917S, -119.435WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Mono City in California. Global time and date of event 26/06/20 / 2020-06-26 05:45:17 / June 26, 2020 @ 5:45 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.4 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00753806. Id of event: nn00753806. The temblor was detected at 05:45:17 / 5:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.435 West, latitude 37.9917 North, depth = 3.4 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km WSW of Mono City, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km WSW of Mono City, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-26 05:45:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-26 05:49:25 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.449 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 300.46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nn00753806 Id of event.
Event Code 00753806 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00753806, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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