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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 5 km WSW of Moapa Valley, Nevada

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Earthquake location 36.5657S, -114.5276WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Moapa Valley in Nevada on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -114.5276 West, latitude 36.5657 North, depth = 9.87 km. The temblor was picked up at 11:14:26 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.87 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005btn, nn00536905. Unique identifier: us20005btn. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/03/16 / 2016-03-22 18:14:26 / March 22, 2016 @ 6:14 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Las Vegas (c. 583 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Henderson (c. 257 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Paradise (c. 223 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from North Las Vegas (c. 217 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sunrise Manor (c. 189 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paradise, Whitney, Winchester (min 5000 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 5 km WSW of Moapa Valley, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.5276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5657° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW of Moapa Valley, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-22 18:14:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-24 16:26:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 129 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.51 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us20005btn Id of event.
Event Code 20005btn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005btn,nn00536905, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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