Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 38 km ENE of Currant, Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 38 km ENE of Currant, Nevada (24 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 15.2 km, -115.086° West, 38.9178° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00557996. Unique identifier: nn00557996. Global time and date of event 29/08/16 / 2016-08-29 04:42:55 / August 29, 2016 @ 4:42 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:42:55 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.2 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km ENE of Currant, 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	-115.086° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.9178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km ENE of Currant, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-29 04:42:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-29 04:46:10	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	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.493	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	152.14	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	nn00557996	Id of event.
Event Code	00557996	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00557996,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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