Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Tonopah in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 3 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (2 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 04:42:59 / May 21, 2020 @ 4:42 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:42:59 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00729981. Event ids that are associated: nn00729981. Exact location of earthquake, -117.2637° West, 38.0757° North, depth 12.5 km.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km WNW of Tonopah, 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	-117.2637° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0757° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-21 04:42:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-21 04:46:18	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.35	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4444 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161.78	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	nn00729981	Id of event.
Event Code	00729981	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00729981,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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