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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on September 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7946663S, -119.0414963WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.0414963 West, latitude 37.7946663 North, depth = 4.28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.28 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:44:36 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 13:44:36 / September 16, 2015 @ 1:44 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72525806. Unique identifier: nc72525806.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km NNW of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0414963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7946663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNW 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 2015-09-16 13:44:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-16 14:00:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 132 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08384 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 146 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 nc72525806 Id of event.
Event Code 72525806 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72525806, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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