A 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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