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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Bridgeport in California

Posted by admin on October 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.0643349S, -118.8054962WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Bridgeport in California. Id of earthquake: nc72717590. Event ids that are associated: nc72717590, nn00564805. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.95 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:56:37 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 03:56:37 / October 29, 2016 @ 3:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8054962 West, latitude 38.0643349 North, depth = 10.95 km.

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). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 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 0 and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 43 km ESE of Bridgeport, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8054962° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0643349° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km ESE of Bridgeport, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-29 03:56:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-29 04:02:09 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 123 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2961 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 98 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 nc72717590 Id of event.
Event Code 72717590 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72717590,nn00564805, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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