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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Eureka in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.1617S, -116.1378WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 41 km SSW of Eureka, Nevada (25 miles). Event id: nn00655590. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00655590. The temblor was detected at 09:27:53 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/09/18 / 2018-09-08 17:27:53 / September 8, 2018 @ 5:27 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -116.1378° West, 39.1617° North, depth 20.2 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.2 km (13 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 41 km SSW of Eureka, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.1378° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Eureka, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-08 17:27:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-08 17:30:03 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72.62 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 nn00655590 Id of event.
Event Code 00655590 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00655590, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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