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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Toms Place in CA


Earthquake location 37.4751663S, -118.767334WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.767334 West, latitude 37.4751663 North, depth = 6.34 km. The temblor was detected at 08:05:58 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/20 / 2020-09-12 08:05:58 / September 12, 2020 @ 8:05 am. Event id: nc73456656. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73456656. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.34 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SW of Toms Place, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.767334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4751663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW of Toms Place, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-12 08:05:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-12 08:07:44 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 127 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1247 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 nc73456656 Id of event.
Event Code 73456656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73456656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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