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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 12 km W of Toms Place, CA


Earthquake location 37.581665S, -118.8130035WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Toms Place in CA on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.57 km (7 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/19 / 2019-09-19 10:27:23 / September 19, 2019 @ 10:27 am. The temblor was reported at 02:27:23 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nc73276405. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73276405. Exact location, longitude -118.8130035° West, latitude 37.581665° North, depth = 10.57 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km W of Toms Place, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8130035° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.581665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km W 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 2019-09-19 10:27:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-19 10:32:03 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 128 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01528 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 119 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 nc73276405 Id of event.
Event Code 73276405 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73276405, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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