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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Toms Place in CA


Earthquake location 37.4768333S, -118.8093338WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -118.8093338° West, latitude 37.4768333° North, depth = 8.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nc72939686. Unique identifier: nc72939686. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/17 / 2017-12-14 05:42:21 / December 14, 2017 @ 5:42 am. The temblor was detected at 21:42:21 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.99 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km SW of Toms Place, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8093338° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4768333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SW 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 2017-12-14 05:42:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-14 05:52:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.5 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 128 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1141 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 76 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 nc72939686 Id of event.
Event Code 72939686 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72939686, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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