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Minor earthquake 2.93 mag, 28 km SE of Bodie, CA


Earthquake location 38.0718346S, -118.7493362WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.41 km (4 miles). The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:30:02 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 20:30:02 / April 12, 2020 @ 8:30 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7493362 West, latitude 38.0718346 North, depth = 6.41 km. Id of earthquake: nc73369090. Event ids that are associated: nc73369090.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 28 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7493362° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0718346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SE of Bodie, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 20:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 20:31:42 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 132 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 nc73369090 Id of event.
Event Code 73369090 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73369090, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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