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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California


Earthquake location 37.5709991S, -118.6388321WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California. Exact location of event, depth 12.98 km, -118.6388321° West, 37.5709991° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/15 / 2015-11-13 03:58:10 / November 13, 2015 @ 3:58 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72554891. Id of event: nc72554891. The temblor was reported at 19:58:10 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.98 km (8 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.6388321° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5709991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-13 03:58:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-13 04:01:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 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 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 136 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 nc72554891 Id of event.
Event Code 72554891 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72554891, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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