Minor earthquake 2.87 mag, 62 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 62 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada (39 miles) on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/15 / 2015-09-09 00:49:59 / September 9, 2015 @ 12:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.8962 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nn00509880. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00509880. Exact location of event, longitude -117.3974 West, latitude 37.1634 North, depth = 4.8962 km. The temblor was detected at 17:49:59 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.3974° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1634° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.8962 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-09 00:49:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-09 21:50:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	reviewed	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	127	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.525	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2241 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138.2	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	nn00509880	Id of event.
Event Code	00509880	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00509880,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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