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Minor earthquake 2.95 mag, 30 km SE of Bodie, CA

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Earthquake location 38.0585S, -118.7271667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bodie in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 11:21:53 / April 12, 2020 @ 11:21 am. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7271667 West, latitude 38.0585 North, depth = 9.76 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.76 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: nc73368760. Event ids that are associated: nc73368760, nn00721988, us70008ust. The temblor was picked up at 03:21:53 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter).

Close 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). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 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-nine, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7271667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.76 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 11:21:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-21 07:54:02 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 134 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,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2603 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 nc73368760 Id of event.
Event Code 73368760 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73368760,nn00721988,us70008ust, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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