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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Sutcliffe in Nevada

Posted by admin on January 9, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.0402S, -119.631WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sutcliffe in Nevada on Saturday. Unique identifier: nn00796594. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000d70e, nn00796594. The temblor was picked up at 09:34:05 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/21 / 2021-01-09 09:34:05 / January 9, 2021 @ 9:34 am. Exact location, longitude -119.631° West, latitude 40.0402° North, depth = 12.4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reno, Fernley, Sparks (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-09 09:34:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-09 11:19:11 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 ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110.27 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 nn00796594 Id of event.
Event Code 00796594 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d70e,nn00796594, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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