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Minor earthquake, 3.08 mag has occurred near Toms Place in CA


Earthquake location 37.5079994S, -118.8571701WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 20:17:10 / January 16, 2018 @ 8:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.75 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:17:10 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc72954970. Unique identifier: nc72954970. Exact location of earthquake, -118.8571701° West, 37.5079994° North, depth 9.75 km.

Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km WSW of Toms Place, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8571701° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5079994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WSW 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 2018-01-16 20:17:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-16 20:22:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 146 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 nc72954970 Id of event.
Event Code 72954970 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72954970, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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