Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 47 km NNE of Battle Mountain, Nevada


Earthquake location 41.1542S, -116.5415WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Battle Mountain in Nevada. Event id: nn00694465. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00694465, us70004inn. The temblor was detected at 15:06:40 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -116.5415° West, 41.1542° North, depth 9.2 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 23:06:40 / July 11, 2019 @ 11:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.2 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Elko. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

Did you feel it?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 47 km NNE of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Copyright © 2019 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.5415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NNE of Battle Mountain, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-11 23:06:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-12 01:04:12 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 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 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1731 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327.83 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 nn00694465 Id of event.
Event Code 00694465 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00694465,us70004inn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply