Minor earthquake 2.83 mag, 1 km N of West Bishop, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from West Bishop in CA. Exact location, longitude -118.4563369751° West, latitude 37.371334075928° North, depth = 5.8400001525879 km. The temblor was reported at 03:21:43 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/05/25 / 2025-05-28 03:21:43 / May 28, 2025 @ 3:21 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nc75187451. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75187451. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8400001525879 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.4563369751° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.371334075928° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8400001525879 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km N of West Bishop, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-28 03:21:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-28 03:26:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	124	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06179	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	175	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	nc75187451	Id of event.
Event Code	75187451	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75187451,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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