Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Fallon Station in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Fallon Station in Nevada. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/06/20 / 2020-06-26 14:12:58 / June 26, 2020 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00753965. Unique identifier: nn00753965. The temblor was reported at 14:12:58 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.5667° West, latitude 39.4977° North, depth = 14.6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.6 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fernley, Silver Springs, Fallon (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifteen 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 15 km NE of Fallon Station, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.5667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4977° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NE of Fallon Station, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-26 14:12:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-26 14:16:18	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.224	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	301.01	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	nn00753965	Id of event.
Event Code	00753965	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00753965,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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