Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 25 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.63 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -118.4508362° West, 37.6161652° North, depth 6.63 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 07:41:42 / August 10, 2017 @ 7:41 am. Event id: nc72865586. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72865586. The temblor was reported at 23:41:42 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 46 km (29 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 one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.4508362° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6161652° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-10 07:41:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-10 07:45:19	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	126	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.06826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	nc72865586	Id of event.
Event Code	72865586	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72865586,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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