Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag has occurred near Toms Place in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Toms Place in CA. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:38:11 / 8:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.41 km (-1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nc73511395, nn00797380. Unique identifier: nc73511395. Exact location, longitude -118.5483322° West, latitude 37.9075012° North, depth = -1.41 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 20:38:11 / January 15, 2021 @ 8:38 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.82 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.5483322° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9075012° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km 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 20:38:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-15 20:44:04	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,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2356	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	nc73511395	Id of event.
Event Code	73511395	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73511395,nn00797380,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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