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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag was detected near Toms Place in CA


Earthquake location 37.4020004S, -118.8918304WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -118.8918304° West, latitude 37.4020004° North, depth = -0.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.88 km (-1 miles). Global time and date of event 16/03/19 / 2019-03-16 23:32:09 / March 16, 2019 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:32:09 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nc73153031. Ids that are associated to the event: nc73153031.

Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 26 km SW of Toms Place, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8918304° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4020004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SW of Toms Place, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-16 23:32:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-16 23:35:24 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 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 97 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 nc73153031 Id of event.
Event Code 73153031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73153031, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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