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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 9 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA


Earthquake location 37.6313324S, -118.8748322WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/18 / 2018-07-27 05:49:12 / July 27, 2018 @ 5:49 am. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8748322 West, latitude 37.6313324 North, depth = 5.76 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.76 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73057311. Id of event: nc73057311. The temblor was detected at 21:49:12 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8748322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6313324° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-27 05:49:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-27 05:55:03 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 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 0.01552 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 82 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 nc73057311 Id of event.
Event Code 73057311 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73057311, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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