A 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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