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Minor earthquake: M2.56 quake strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3238S, -118.132WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.56 (mg/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The temblor was reported at 06:30:27 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 11.7872 km (7 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-04 02:30:27 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -118.132 West, latitude 38.3238 North, depth 11.7872 km.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.132° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.7872 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-04 02:30:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-04 10:33:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 reviewed 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 101 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1478 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107.02 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 nn00480923 Id of event.
Event Code 00480923 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS nn00480923 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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