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Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on August 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.4623337S, -118.8216629WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. The temblor was picked up at 00:47:39 / 12:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.19 km (1 miles). Event id: nc72869066. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72869066. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/17 / 2017-08-14 08:47:39 / August 14, 2017 @ 8:47 am. Exact location of earthquake, -118.8216629° West, 37.4623337° North, depth 2.19 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8216629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4623337° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.19 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 08:47:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-14 08:55:02 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 139 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 0.1276 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 120 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 nc72869066 Id of event.
Event Code 72869066 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72869066, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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