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Minor earthquake, 2.84 mag was detected near Bishop in California

Posted by admin on March 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2496667S, -118.391WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Bishop in California. Exact location of earthquake, -118.391° West, 37.2496667° North, depth 14.26 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.26 km (9 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00535627, nc72606860. Id of event: nc72606860. Global time and date of event 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 13:16:01 / March 15, 2016 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:16:01 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 12 km S of Bishop, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2496667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of 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 2016-03-15 13:16:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-15 18:12:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 124 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 ,nn,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 nc72606860 Id of event.
Event Code 72606860 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00535627,nc72606860, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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