Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 31 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3952S, -118.2988WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 31 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada (19 miles) on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -118.2988° West, 38.3952° North, depth 12 km. The temblor was detected at 07:57:45 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00527406. Unique identifier: nn00527406. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/16 / 2016-01-18 15:57:45 / January 18, 2016 @ 3:57 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

How would you describe the shaking?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 31 km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.2988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3952° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km 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 2016-01-18 15:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-18 16:04:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41.45 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 nn00527406 Id of event.
Event Code 00527406 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00527406, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply