A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72722720. Unique identifier: nc72722720. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/11/16 / 2016-11-09 19:10:12 / November 9, 2016 @ 7:10 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -118.9271698 West, latitude 37.6385002 North, depth = 5.77 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:10:12 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.77 km (4 miles).
Close 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 4 km (3 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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