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Minor earthquake: M3.82 quake has struck near Round Valley in CA


Earthquake location 37.4748344S, -118.553833WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Round Valley in CA on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.94 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -118.553833° West, 37.4748344° North, depth 13.94 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/18 / 2018-04-22 16:04:16 / April 22, 2018 @ 4:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:04:16 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73002966. Id of event: nc73002966.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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. 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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 8 km NNE of Round Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.553833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4748344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE of Round Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-22 16:04:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-22 16:13:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.03 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 reviewed 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 231 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09984 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 60 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 nc73002966 Id of event.
Event Code 73002966 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73002966, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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