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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.422S, -118.8754WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 24 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (15 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/18 / 2018-05-07 03:52:12 / May 7, 2018 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10.2 km, -118.8754° West, 38.422° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.2 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:52:12 / 7:52 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00633800, nc73012416. Unique identifier: nn00633800.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8754° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.422° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2018-05-07 03:52:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-07 04:03:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.09 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 reviewed 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 130 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,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2199 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60.82 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 nn00633800 Id of event.
Event Code 00633800 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00633800,nc73012416, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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