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Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.0678329S, -118.7493362WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA. Event id: nc73414356. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73414356, nn00752128, us6000agzu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.6 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 04:46:33 / June 23, 2020 @ 4:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, -118.7493362° West, 38.0678329° North, depth -0.6 km. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:46:33 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby 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). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (31 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 five, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km SE of Bodie, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7493362° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0678329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.6 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 2020-06-23 04:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 04:53:28 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 3.6 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 136 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2659 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 nc73414356 Id of event.
Event Code 73414356 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73414356,nn00752128,us6000agzu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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