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Minor earthquake, 3.75 mag strikes near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on August 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6241684S, -118.8928299WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -118.8928299° West, 37.6241684° North, depth 2.13 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72682391. Id of event: nc72682391. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/08/16 / 2016-08-21 21:47:48 / August 21, 2016 @ 9:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.13 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:47:48 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 7 km (5 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.75 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8928299° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6241684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE 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 2016-08-21 21:47:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-21 22:02:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.54 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 223 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 0.008209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 nc72682391 Id of event.
Event Code 72682391 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72682391, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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