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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.4133S, -118.9143WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (17 miles). Unique identifier: nn00588107. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72798336, nn00588107. The temblor was picked up at 02:43:56 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6.1 km, -118.9143° West, 38.4133° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.1 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 06/05/17 / 2017-05-06 10:43:56 / May 6, 2017 @ 10:43 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9143° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.1 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 2017-05-06 10:43:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-06 10:49:34 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 158 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.314 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 62.46 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 nn00588107 Id of event.
Event Code 00588107 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72798336,nn00588107, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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