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Minor earthquake 2.96 mag, 2 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA

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Earthquake location 37.6218333S, -118.9753333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.18 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:51:06 / 11:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/19 / 2019-01-24 19:51:06 / January 24, 2019 @ 7:51 pm. Id of earthquake: nc73136051. Event ids that are associated: nc73136051, nn00675449. Exact location of event, depth 5.18 km, -118.9753333° West, 37.6218333° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. Epicenter of the event was 3 km (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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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: 2 km S of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9753333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6218333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S 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 2019-01-24 19:51:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-01 18:00:07 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 reviewed 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 135 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 nc73136051 Id of event.
Event Code 73136051 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73136051,nn00675449, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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