A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Bodie in CA. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:01:24 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 17:01:24 / November 29, 2018 @ 5:01 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73117116. Unique identifier: nc73117116. Exact location, longitude -118.8786697° West, latitude 38.0718346° North, depth = 17.58 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.58 km (11 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 19 km SE of Bodie, CA.
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