Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (17 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.5 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.9144 West, latitude 38.4055 North, depth = 9.5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 08:26:57 / December 28, 2016 @ 8:26 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00573041. Unique identifier: nn00573041. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:26:57 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.9144° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4055° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km 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 08:26:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-09 01:55:59	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	158	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.128	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1983 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63.08	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	nn00573041	Id of event.
Event Code	00573041	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00573041,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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