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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2635S, -118.7322WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The temblor was detected at 08:19:39 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 15:19:39 / May 3, 2016 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -118.7322° West, 38.2635° North, depth 15.5 km. Unique identifier: nn00542685. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00542685, nc72630355. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 30 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7322° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-03 15:19:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-03 15:27:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 121 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,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.183 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 43.57 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 nn00542685 Id of event.
Event Code 00542685 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00542685,nc72630355, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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