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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA


Earthquake location 37.5188332S, -118.4048309WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA. The temblor was reported at 17:29:37 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73128161. Id of event: nc73128161. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.4048309 West, latitude 37.5188332 North, depth = 10.84 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/18 / 2018-12-30 01:29:37 / December 30, 2018 @ 1:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.84 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 15 km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4048309° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5188332° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-30 01:29:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-30 01:35:03 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 121 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 0.04229 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 153 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 nc73128161 Id of event.
Event Code 73128161 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73128161, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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