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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3503S, -118.8628WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada (17 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 05:49:43 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 13:49:43 / December 28, 2016 @ 1:49 pm. Event id: nn00570909. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00570909. Exact location of earthquake, -118.8628° West, 38.3503° North, depth 18.2 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.2 km (11 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fifty-four 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 28 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.8628° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW 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 2016-12-28 13:49:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-28 14:03:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.291 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 55.73 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 nn00570909 Id of event.
Event Code 00570909 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00570909, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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