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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3812S, -118.9032WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 08:18:00 / December 28, 2016 @ 8:18 am. Exact location, longitude -118.9032° West, latitude 38.3812° North, depth = 19 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:18:00 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00570709. Unique identifier: nn00570709.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Gardnerville (c. 5 700 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Indian Hills (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Carson City, Dayton (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 29 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.9032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km 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 08:18:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-28 08:25:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 140 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.6 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 596 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 102 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 34.71 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 nn00570709 Id of event.
Event Code 00570709 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00570709, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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