Minor earthquake 3 mag, 45 km NE of Mammoth Lakes, California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. Exact location, longitude -118.6651688° West, latitude 37.9758339° North, depth = 1.58 km. Global time and date of event 19/10/17 / 2017-10-19 16:02:17 / October 19, 2017 @ 4:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72911606, nn00609803. Unique identifier: nc72911606. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.58 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:02:17 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 45 km NE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.6651688° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9758339° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45km NE 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	2017-10-19 16:02:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-19 16:07:58	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	138	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,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3027	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	133	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	nc72911606	Id of event.
Event Code	72911606	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72911606,nn00609803,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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