A 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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