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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fallon in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 5, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.3182S, -118.1758WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Fallon in Nevada on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.7 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/19 / 2019-05-05 11:01:31 / May 5, 2019 @ 11:01 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:01:31 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00684070. Id of event: nn00684070. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.1758 West, latitude 39.3182 North, depth = 20.7 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop).

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

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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: 54 km ESE of Fallon, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3182° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km ESE of Fallon, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-05 11:01:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-05 11:06:43 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95.07 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 nn00684070 Id of event.
Event Code 00684070 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00684070, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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