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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1512S, -117.9917WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (17 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00741338. Id of event: nn00741338. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9917 West, latitude 38.1512 North, depth = 10.9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/20 / 2020-06-02 13:07:48 / June 2, 2020 @ 1:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.9 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:07:48 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-02 13:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-02 13:11:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47.38 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 nn00741338 Id of event.
Event Code 00741338 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00741338, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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