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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3893S, -118.9107WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (18 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00572073. Event ids that are associated: nn00572073. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.7 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9107 West, latitude 38.3893 North, depth = 18.7 km. The temblor was detected at 10:01:16 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 18:01:16 / January 2, 2017 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9107° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3893° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km 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 2017-01-02 18:01:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-02 18:06:49 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 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4 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 55.24 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 nn00572073 Id of event.
Event Code 00572073 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00572073, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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