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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 10 km S of Bishop, California


Earthquake location 37.2661S, -118.3832WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Bishop in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 13:16:01 / March 15, 2016 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 13.2 km, -118.3832° West, 37.2661° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.2 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00535627, nc72606860. Unique identifier: nn00535627. The temblor was reported at 06:16:01 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km S of Bishop, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.3832° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 15:59:42 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1448 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111.15 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 nn00535627 Id of event.
Event Code 00535627 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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