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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.344S, -118.8947WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -118.8947° West, 38.344° North, depth 5.9 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.9 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/02/17 / 2017-02-01 04:12:11 / February 1, 2017 @ 4:12 am. Event id: nn00576494. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00576494. The temblor was reported at 20:12:11 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.9 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 2017-02-01 04:12:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-01 04:16:50 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.306 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 55.14 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 nn00576494 Id of event.
Event Code 00576494 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00576494, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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