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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Goldfield in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.58S, -116.7547WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 44 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada (27 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 03:26:26 / May 16, 2020 @ 3:26 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:26:26 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00725975. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725975. Exact location, longitude -116.7547° West, latitude 37.58° North, depth = 16 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.7547° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.58° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ESE 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 2020-05-16 03:26:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 03:32:45 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 129 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.649 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177.38 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 nn00725975 Id of event.
Event Code 00725975 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725975, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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