Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:40:12 / 6:40 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00570928. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00570928, nc72745035. Global time and date of event 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 14:40:12 / December 28, 2016 @ 2:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.8215 West, latitude 38.298 North, depth = 15.3 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8215° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.298° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km 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 14:40:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-28 14:48:02	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	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.88	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	189	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,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	76	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.206	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	56.22	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	nn00570928	Id of event.
Event Code	00570928	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00570928,nc72745035,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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