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Minor earthquake 2.94 mag, 22 km SE of Bodie, CA


Earthquake location 38.0838318S, -118.8278351WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Bodie in CA. Id of earthquake: nc73022986. Event ids that are associated: nc73022986, nn00637483. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8278351 West, latitude 38.0838318 North, depth = 4.3 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.3 km (3 miles). The 2.94-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:18 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 17:18:18 / May 30, 2018 @ 5:18 pm.

The epicenter was 50 km (31 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/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8278351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0838318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SE of Bodie, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-30 17:18:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-30 17:28:57 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 2.7 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 133 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,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1456 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73022986 Id of event.
Event Code 73022986 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73022986,nn00637483, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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