Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Lovelock in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Lovelock in Nevada on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -118.0357 West, latitude 40.4498 North, depth = 15.3 km. Id of earthquake: nn00599899. Event ids that are associated: nn00599899. The temblor was reported at 21:54:59 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/08/17 / 2017-08-09 05:54:59 / August 9, 2017 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winnemucca (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0357° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4498° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km NE of Lovelock, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-09 05:54:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-09 05:58:19	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	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.679	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	253.53	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	nn00599899	Id of event.
Event Code	00599899	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00599899,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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