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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 41 km W of Goldfield, Nevada


Earthquake location 37.7712S, -117.6957WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 km W of Goldfield, Nevada (25 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/19 / 2019-02-21 12:33:41 / February 21, 2019 @ 12:33 pm. Unique identifier: nn00678516. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00678516. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.5 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:33:41 / 4:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 11.5 km, -117.6957° West, 37.7712° North.

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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 41 km W of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.6957° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km W of Goldfield, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-21 12:33:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-21 12:35:47 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133.71 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 nn00678516 Id of event.
Event Code 00678516 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00678516, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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