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Minor earthquake 2.98 mag, 2 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA


Earthquake location 37.6264992S, -118.9576645WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. Id of earthquake: nc73279820. Event ids that are associated: nc73279820. Exact location of earthquake, -118.9576645° West, 37.6264992° North, depth -2.05 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 07:43:52 / September 25, 2019 @ 7:43 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -2.05 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:43:52 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 2 km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9576645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6264992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -2.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE of Mammoth Lakes, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-25 07:43:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 07:48:00 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 137 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 nc73279820 Id of event.
Event Code 73279820 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73279820, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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