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Minor earthquake 2.82 mag, 41 km NNE of Toms Place, CA


Earthquake location 37.9109993S, -118.5323334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Toms Place in CA. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.5323334 West, latitude 37.9109993 North, depth = 1.72 km. Global time and date of event 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 20:02:03 / January 15, 2021 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:02:03 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.72 km (1 miles). Event id: nc73511365. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73511365.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 41 km NNE of Toms Place, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5323334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9109993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NNE of Toms Place, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-15 20:02:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-15 20:07:05 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 nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 nc73511365 Id of event.
Event Code 73511365 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73511365, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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