Minor earthquake, 3.87 mag was detected near Mammoth Lakes in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.87 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72737010. Id of event: nc72737010. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9246674 West, latitude 37.6378326 North, depth = 6.01 km. Global time and date of event 14/12/16 / 2016-12-14 07:44:24 / December 14, 2016 @ 7:44 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.01 km (4 miles). The 3.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:44:24 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. Epicenter of the event was 4 km (3 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9246674° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6378326° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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	2016-12-14 07:44:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-14 07:57:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	28	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.46	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	241	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0209	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mw	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72737010	Id of event.
Event Code	72737010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72737010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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