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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near McGill in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.5632S, -114.5107WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 28 km NE of McGill, Nevada (17 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.4 km (13 miles). Unique identifier: nn00517729. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00517729. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 22:50:43 / November 4, 2015 @ 10:50 pm. The temblor was reported at 14:50:43 / 2:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -114.5107° West, 39.5632° North, depth 20.4 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 28 km NE of McGill, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.5107° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5632° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NE of McGill, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-04 22:50:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-04 22:54:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182.63 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 nn00517729 Id of event.
Event Code 00517729 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00517729, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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