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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.4292S, -118.8983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (16 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 16:36:15 / January 6, 2017 @ 4:36 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00572706. Unique identifier: nn00572706. The temblor was detected at 08:36:15 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.8983° West, latitude 38.4292° North, depth = 18.7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.7 km (12 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 26 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km 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 2017-01-06 16:36:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 16:41:07 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 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.34 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 60.7 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 nn00572706 Id of event.
Event Code 00572706 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00572706, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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