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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Mammoth Lakes in California

Posted by admin on May 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.0529S, -118.7149WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes in California. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:55:08 / 6:55 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70009cel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73381865, nn00724755, us70009cel. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.25 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 14:55:08 / May 8, 2020 @ 2:55 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -118.7149 West, latitude 38.0529 North, depth = 8.25 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km NNE of Mammoth Lakes, California. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7149° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0529° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2020-05-08 14:55:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 15:07:51 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 4.91 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 188 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us70009cel Id of event.
Event Code 70009cel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73381865,nn00724755,us70009cel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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