Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Mammoth Lakes in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 08/11/17 / 2017-11-08 08:04:41 / November 8, 2017 @ 8:04 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.46 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -118.8216629° West, latitude 37.605835° North, depth = 3.46 km. The temblor was detected at 00:04:41 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc72920846. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72920846, ci38039000.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 14 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8216629° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.605835° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2017-11-08 08:04:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-08 08:10:03	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	129	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,ci,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01685	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	71	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	nc72920846	Id of event.
Event Code	72920846	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72920846,ci38039000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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