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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Mammoth Lakes in CA

Posted by admin on August 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5483322S, -118.8753357WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:11:13 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.8753357 West, latitude 37.5483322 North, depth = 6.77 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/18 / 2018-08-27 06:11:13 / August 27, 2018 @ 6:11 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73076320. Id of event: nc73076320. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.77 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 13 km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8753357° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5483322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE 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 2018-08-27 06:11:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-27 06:14:35 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 129 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 nc73076320 Id of event.
Event Code 73076320 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73076320, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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