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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 30 km SE of Bodie, CA


Earthquake location 38.0535S, -118.7355WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bodie in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 21:12:01 / April 11, 2020 @ 9:12 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -118.7355° West, 38.0535° North, depth 2.6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.6 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nc73368060. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00721787, nc73368060, us70008u9n. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:12:01 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 thirty-six, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 30 km SE of Bodie, 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 -118.7355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2020-04-11 21:12:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-17 22:43:24 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 3.8 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 reviewed 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 nc 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 nc73368060 Id of event.
Event Code 73368060 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00721787,nc73368060,us70008u9n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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