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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on July 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4738333S, -118.8446667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact location, longitude -118.8446667° West, latitude 37.4738333° North, depth = 4.98 km. Global time and date of event 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 22:23:36 / July 20, 2015 @ 10:23 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72490521. Event ids that are associated: nc72490521, nn00502743. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:23:36 / 3:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.98 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 22 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8446667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4738333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-20 22:23:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 23:06:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 reviewed 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 nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1166 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 76 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 nc72490521 Id of event.
Event Code 72490521 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72490521,nn00502743, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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