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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.298S, -118.8215WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:40:12 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00570928. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00570928, nc72745035. Global time and date of event 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 14:40:12 / December 28, 2016 @ 2:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8215 West, latitude 38.298 North, depth = 15.3 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8215° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SW 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 2016-12-28 14:40:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-28 14:48:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.88 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 189 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.206 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 56.22 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 nn00570928 Id of event.
Event Code 00570928 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00570928,nc72745035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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