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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag strikes near Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA


Earthquake location 37.4210014S, -118.3681641WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.52 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:46:11 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 17:46:11 / April 29, 2019 @ 5:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: nc73174035. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73174035. Exact location of event, depth 6.52 km, -118.3681641° West, 37.4210014° North.

Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 6 km NE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.3681641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4210014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NE 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 2019-04-29 17:46:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 17:54:50 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 2.6 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 133 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.04907 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 123 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 nc73174035 Id of event.
Event Code 73174035 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73174035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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