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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Wells in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.945S, -114.7695WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Wells in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.1 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:43:50 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -114.7695 West, latitude 40.945 North, depth = 7.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00543816. Unique identifier: nn00543816. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 21:43:50 / May 11, 2016 @ 9:43 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spring Creek (min 5000 pop). 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 24 km SE of Wells, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.7695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.945° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SE of Wells, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-11 21:43:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 21:48:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 ,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.179 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 285.65 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 nn00543816 Id of event.
Event Code 00543816 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00543816, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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