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Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA


Earthquake location 37.4093323S, -118.4458313WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in CA. Global time and date of event 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 23:29:25 / December 5, 2019 @ 11:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -118.4458313° West, 37.4093323° North, depth 9.62 km. The temblor was reported at 23:29:25 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.62 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73312051. Unique identifier: nc73312051.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4458313° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.4093323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-05 23:29:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-05 23:31:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 123 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02407 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 120 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 nc73312051 Id of event.
Event Code 73312051 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73312051, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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