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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag has occurred near Mammoth Lakes in California


Earthquake location 37.4869995S, -118.7786636WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 12:05:16 / August 14, 2016 @ 12:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7786636 West, latitude 37.4869995 North, depth = 6.14 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.14 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nc72677166. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72677166. The temblor was reported at 05:05:16 / 5:05 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7786636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4869995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2016-08-14 12:05:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 12:08:31 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 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 127 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1104 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 123 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 nc72677166 Id of event.
Event Code 72677166 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72677166, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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