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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag was detected near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on September 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6226654S, -118.895668WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.19 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:52:09 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -118.895668° West, 37.6226654° North, depth 1.19 km. Global time and date of event 08/09/16 / 2016-09-08 01:52:09 / September 8, 2016 @ 1:52 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72691516. Event ids that are associated: nc72691516.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Event epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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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: 7 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.895668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6226654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.19 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 2016-09-08 01:52:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 01:56:44 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 167 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 0.006668 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 nc72691516 Id of event.
Event Code 72691516 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72691516, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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