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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Bodie in CA


Earthquake location 38.030666351318S, -118.80516815185WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Bodie in CA. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 21:54:04 / September 14, 2024 @ 9:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.1900000572205 km (3 miles). The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:54:04 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -118.80516815185° West, 38.030666351318° North, depth 5.1900000572205 km. Event id: nc75061916. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75061916, nn00884681.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 27 km SSE of Bodie, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.80516815185° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.030666351318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.1900000572205 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SSE 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 2024-09-14 21:54:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-14 21:58:02 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 156 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2583 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 105 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 nc75061916 Id of event.
Event Code 75061916 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc75061916,nn00884681, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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