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Earthquake: M 2.96 quake strikes near West Bishop in California


Earthquake location 37.269165S, -118.4055023WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from West Bishop in California. The temblor was reported at 08:13:57 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 6.66 km (4 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-03 04:13:57 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -118.4055023 West, latitude 37.269165 North, depth 6.66 km.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4055023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.269165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of West Bishop, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-03 16:13:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-03 16:16:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 135 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 ncnn A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1512 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 215 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 nc72391211 Id of event.
Event Code 72391211 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nc72391211nn00480822 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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