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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 65 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California

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Earthquake location 37.952S, -118.187WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek in California. Unique identifier: nn00725663. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725663. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 20:11:45 / May 15, 2020 @ 8:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:11:45 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.187 West, latitude 37.952 North, depth = 0.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.8 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 65 km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NNE of Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-15 20:11:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 20:16:12 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148.11 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 nn00725663 Id of event.
Event Code 00725663 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725663, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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