Minor earthquake 3.12 mag, 24 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72869046. Id of event: nc72869046. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/17 / 2017-08-14 08:08:21 / August 14, 2017 @ 8:08 am. The temblor was detected at 00:08:21 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.87 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 1.87 km, -118.8201675° West, 37.4648323° North.

The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 24 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.12 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8201675° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4648323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24km SSE 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	2017-08-14 08:08:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-14 08:14:03	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	150	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	0.1252	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	76	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72869046	Id of event.
Event Code	72869046	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72869046,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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