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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0551667S, -118.7283333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bodie in CA on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00721865, us70008ugi, nc73368325. Id of event: nc73368325. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7283333 West, latitude 38.0551667 North, depth = 4.26 km. The temblor was reported at 17:12:01 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.26 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 01:12:01 / April 12, 2020 @ 1:12 am UTC/GMT.

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 earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7283333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0551667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.26 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 2020-04-12 01:12:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-18 01:38:09 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 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 127 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,us,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2634 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 99 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 nc73368325 Id of event.
Event Code 73368325 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00721865,us70008ugi,nc73368325, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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