Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (19 miles) on Wednesday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:22:35 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.4 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 09:22:35 / December 28, 2016 @ 9:22 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nn00570819. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00570819. Exact location of earthquake, -118.9408° West, 38.4058° North, depth 8.4 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 30 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9408° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4058° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km WSW 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 09:22:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-28 11:05:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	148	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1616 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50.09	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	nn00570819	Id of event.
Event Code	00570819	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00570819,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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