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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on April 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1975S, -118.651WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 23:43:59 / April 11, 2020 @ 11:43 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.5 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:43:59 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00721840. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00721840, nc73368230, us70008uek. Exact location of event, longitude -118.651 West, latitude 38.1975 North, depth = 10.5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 48 km NNE of Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NNE of Mammoth Lakes, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-11 23:43:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 23:55:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 130 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn,nc,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150.15 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 nn00721840 Id of event.
Event Code 00721840 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00721840,nc73368230,us70008uek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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