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Light earthquake, 4.23 mag has occurred near Round Valley in CA


Earthquake location 37.3841667S, -118.5376663WA light earthquake magnitude 4.23 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Round Valley in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc73166830. Unique identifier: nc73166830. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.94 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/19 / 2019-04-15 17:55:58 / April 15, 2019 @ 5:55 pm. Exact location of event, depth 8.94 km, -118.5376663° West, 37.3841667° North. The 4.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:55:58 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ESE of Round Valley, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5376663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3841667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Round Valley, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-15 17:55:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-15 18:01:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.62 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 276 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03706 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 60 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 nc73166830 Id of event.
Event Code 73166830 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73166830, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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