Minor earthquake 2.91 mag, 16 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/10/17 / 2017-10-08 22:45:35 / October 8, 2017 @ 10:45 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:45:35 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72906231. Unique identifier: nc72906231. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8085022 West, latitude 37.5843315 North, depth = 10.1 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 16 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8085022° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5843315° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km 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	2017-10-08 22:45:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-08 22:50:02	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	130	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01733	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	118	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	nc72906231	Id of event.
Event Code	72906231	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72906231,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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