Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9002 West, latitude 38.3667 North, depth = 17.6 km. Unique identifier: nn00571375. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72745985, nn00571375. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.6 km (11 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:15:25 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/12/16 / 2016-12-30 03:15:25 / December 30, 2016 @ 3:15 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km SW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km 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	2016-12-30 03:15:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-30 03:22:31	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	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	138	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	,nc,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.325	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	55.37	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	nn00571375	Id of event.
Event Code	00571375	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72745985,nn00571375,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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