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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Mammoth Lakes in CA


Earthquake location 37.6184998S, -118.8440018WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8440018 West, latitude 37.6184998 North, depth = 3.09 km. Event id: nc73302656. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73302656. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/19 / 2019-11-12 14:34:51 / November 12, 2019 @ 2:34 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.09 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:34:51 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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.

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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: 12 km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8440018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6184998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km E 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 2019-11-12 14:34:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-12 14:39:04 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 129 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01327 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 nc73302656 Id of event.
Event Code 73302656 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73302656, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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