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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Gardnerville Ranchos in Nevada

Posted by admin on September 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.4848S, -119.8247WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos in Nevada on Tuesday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:54:55 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.8247 West, latitude 38.4848 North, depth = 5.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 06/09/17 / 2017-09-06 00:54:55 / September 6, 2017 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nn00603813. Event ids that are associated: nn00603813.

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pollock Pines (c. 6 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carson City, Pollock Pines, Indian Hills (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km S of Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.8247° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4848° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km S of Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-06 00:54:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-06 00:56:14 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.576 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 244.78 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 nn00603813 Id of event.
Event Code 00603813 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00603813, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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