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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag was detected near Lone Pine in CA


Earthquake location 36.4505S, -117.9536667WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 18 km SE of Lone Pine, CA (11 miles) on Tuesday. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:18:51 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/20 / 2020-10-27 23:18:51 / October 27, 2020 @ 11:18 pm. Id of earthquake: ci39446927. Event ids that are associated: ci39446927. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9536667 West, latitude 36.4505 North, depth = 6.66 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.66 km (4 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km SE of Lone Pine, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9536667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SE of Lone Pine, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-27 23:18:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-27 23:22:36 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 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 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 ci39446927 Id of event.
Event Code 39446927 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39446927, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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