Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 23 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 23 km WSW of Hawthorne, Nevada (14 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:17:53 / 7:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -118.8739 West, latitude 38.4356 North, depth = 0 km. Id of earthquake: nn00573716. Event ids that are associated: nn00573716. Global time and date of event 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 03:17:53 / January 13, 2017 @ 3:17 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8739° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4356° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km 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	2017-01-13 03:17:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-13 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	222	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.336	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	57.82	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	nn00573716	Id of event.
Event Code	00573716	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00573716,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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