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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag was detected near Yosemite Valley in California

Posted by admin on September 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6368332S, -119.4138336WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Yosemite Valley in California on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72689286. Id of event: nc72689286. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 01:29:33 / September 3, 2016 @ 1:29 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -1.99 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:29:33 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -119.4138336° West, 37.6368332° North, depth -1.99 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SE of Yosemite Valley, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.4138336° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6368332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -1.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SE of Yosemite Valley, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-03 01:29:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-03 01:32:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 125 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 nc72689286 Id of event.
Event Code 72689286 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72689286, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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