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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Round Valley in CA


Earthquake location 37.4283333S, -118.5456696WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Round Valley in CA. Global time and date of event 18/05/19 / 2019-05-18 14:51:28 / May 18, 2019 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -118.5456696 West, latitude 37.4283333 North, depth = 10.6 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:51:28 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.6 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: nc73183581. Event ids that are associated: nc73183581.

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). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km ENE of Round Valley, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5456696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4283333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ENE 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 2019-05-18 14:51:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-18 14:56:20 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 148 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07634 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 70 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 nc73183581 Id of event.
Event Code 73183581 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73183581, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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