Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Bodie in CA

A 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.

Bodie CA Mammoth Lakes United States

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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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