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Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0405006S, -118.7726669WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.62 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -118.7726669° West, latitude 38.0405006° North, depth = 4.62 km. Event id: nc73404456. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73404456, nn00744687. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:13:24 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/06/20 / 2020-06-07 13:13:24 / June 7, 2020 @ 1:13 pm.

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). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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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. 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: 28 km SE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7726669° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0405006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2020-06-07 13:13:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-07 13:20:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 165 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2981 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 nc73404456 Id of event.
Event Code 73404456 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73404456,nn00744687, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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