A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 07:03:26 / August 21, 2016 @ 7:03 am. Id of earthquake: nc72681916. Event ids that are associated: nc72681916. The temblor was detected at 00:03:26 / 12:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.29 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -118.8913345 West, latitude 37.6248322 North, depth = 1.29 km.
Event epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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