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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag was detected near West Bishop in California

Posted by admin on January 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4128342S, -118.5103302WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from West Bishop in California. Id of earthquake: nc72747255. Event ids that are associated: nc72747255. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 18:10:48 / January 2, 2017 @ 6:10 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.71 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.71 km, -118.5103302° West, 37.4128342° North. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:48 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km NW of West Bishop, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5103302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4128342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of West Bishop, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-02 18:10:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-02 18:16:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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, 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 0.06687 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 42 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 nc72747255 Id of event.
Event Code 72747255 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72747255, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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