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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Gerlach-Empire in Nevada


Earthquake location 40.6578S, -119.45WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 km NW of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:48:10 / 11:48 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00543789. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00543789. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.45° West, latitude 40.6578° North, depth = 0.4 km. Global time and date of event 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 18:48:10 / May 11, 2016 @ 6:48 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km NW of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.45° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6578° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 18:48:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 18:53:12 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 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.753 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 121.69 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 nn00543789 Id of event.
Event Code 00543789 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00543789, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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