Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Tonopah in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 34 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (21 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.4 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 08:09:10 / July 2, 2016 @ 8:09 am UTC/GMT. Event id: nn00550288. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00550288. Exact location of event, longitude -117.6173 West, latitude 38.0837 North, depth = 1.4 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:09:10 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km W of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.6173° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.0837° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km W of Tonopah, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-02 08:09:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-02 08:15:51	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.253	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	72.35	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	nn00550288	Id of event.
Event Code	00550288	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00550288,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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