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Minor earthquake 2.97 mag, 12 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California


Earthquake location 37.4804993S, -118.4866638WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.83 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/11/17 / 2017-11-03 23:29:55 / November 3, 2017 @ 11:29 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nc72918671. Event ids that are associated: nc72918671. Exact location of earthquake, -118.4866638° West, 37.4804993° North, depth 5.83 km. The temblor was detected at 15:29:55 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4866638° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4804993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNW 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 2017-11-03 23:29:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-03 23:38:02 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 136 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 nc72918671 Id of event.
Event Code 72918671 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72918671, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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