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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.9898S, -118.224WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/17 / 2017-01-07 03:30:49 / January 7, 2017 @ 3:30 am. Exact location, longitude -118.224° West, latitude 37.9898° North, depth = 8.3 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72749420, nn00572803. Id of event: nn00572803. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:30:49 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.3 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 68 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.224° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SSE 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 2017-01-07 03:30:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-07 03:37:04 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 129 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 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.337 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 30.01 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 nn00572803 Id of event.
Event Code 00572803 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72749420,nn00572803, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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