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Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 11 km W of Toms Place, CA

Posted by admin on December 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.552166S, -118.80867WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Friday. The temblor was reported at 14:52:53 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nc72937051. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72937051. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.74 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 22:52:53 / December 8, 2017 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.80867 West, latitude 37.552166 North, depth = 4.74 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 two and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 11 km W of Toms Place, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.80867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.552166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km W of Toms Place, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-08 22:52:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 23:01:04 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 126 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 nc72937051 Id of event.
Event Code 72937051 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72937051, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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