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Minor earthquake, 2.93 mag was detected near Round Valley in CA


Earthquake location 37.4440002S, -118.668335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Round Valley in CA. Exact location, longitude -118.668335° West, latitude 37.4440002° North, depth = 15.22 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.22 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/19 / 2019-05-01 17:41:37 / May 1, 2019 @ 5:41 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:41:37 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73175220. Unique identifier: nc73175220.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WNW of Round Valley, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.668335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4440002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW 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 2019-05-01 17:41:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-01 17:44:55 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 132 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1234 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 115 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 nc73175220 Id of event.
Event Code 73175220 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73175220, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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