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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3848S, -118.8913WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (17 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00572645. Event ids that are associated: nc72748665, nn00572645. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:14:25 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.8 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -118.8913 West, latitude 38.3848 North, depth = 3.8 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 04:14:25 / January 6, 2017 @ 4:14 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 04:14:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 04:19:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 138 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.362 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 61.94 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 nn00572645 Id of event.
Event Code 00572645 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72748665,nn00572645, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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