Minor earthquake: M3.18 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.96 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 4.96 km, -118.7836685° West, 37.4799995° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 15:37:55 / August 13, 2016 @ 3:37 pm. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:37:55 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72676601. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72676601.

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.

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

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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. 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: 25 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7836685° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4799995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-13 15:37:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-13 15:46:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	156	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	0.1156	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	106	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	nc72676601	Id of event.
Event Code	72676601	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72676601,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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