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


Earthquake location 38.172S, -117.8422WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 33 km SE of Mina, Nevada (21 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00796433. Event ids that are associated: nc73508065, us6000d6mg, nn00796433. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8422° West, 38.172° North, depth 12.3 km. The temblor was detected at 03:39:31 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/21 / 2021-01-08 03:39:31 / January 8, 2021 @ 3:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.3 km (8 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km SE of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8422° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SE 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 2021-01-08 03:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 03:48:36 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 ,nc,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46.02 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 nn00796433 Id of event.
Event Code 00796433 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73508065,us6000d6mg,nn00796433, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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