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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.4108S, -118.9168WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (17 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:31:54 / 4:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9168 West, latitude 38.4108 North, depth = 20.3 km. Event id: nn00570867. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72744930, nn00570867. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 12:31:54 / December 28, 2016 @ 12:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km WSW 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 12:31:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-28 12:38:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 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 178 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 ,nc,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.348 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 58.74 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 nn00570867 Id of event.
Event Code 00570867 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72744930,nn00570867, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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