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Minor earthquake: M3.07 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on August 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4836667S, -118.7821667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Unique identifier: nc72677246. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72677246, nn00556192. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/16 / 2016-08-14 18:23:28 / August 14, 2016 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.4 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.4 km, -118.7821667° West, 37.4836667° North. The temblor was picked up at 11:23:28 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter).

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

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7821667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4836667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.4 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 18:23:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-16 18:26:30 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 145 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04829 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 103 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 nc72677246 Id of event.
Event Code 72677246 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72677246,nn00556192, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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