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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1745S, -118.0612WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 24 km S of Mina, Nevada (15 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00789036. Id of event: nn00789036. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/20 / 2020-12-03 21:56:39 / December 3, 2020 @ 9:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -118.0612° West, 38.1745° North, depth 6.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:56:39 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km S of Mina, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S 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 2020-12-03 21:56:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-03 22:03:34 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76.4 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 nn00789036 Id of event.
Event Code 00789036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00789036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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