Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Baker in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 46 km N of Baker, Nevada (29 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -114.0415 West, latitude 39.424 North, depth = 7 km. Event id: nn00609724. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00609724. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/17 / 2017-10-18 20:15:40 / October 18, 2017 @ 8:15 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:15:40 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km N of Baker, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.0415° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.424° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46km N of Baker, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-18 20:15:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-18 20:19:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	121	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	1.619	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	221.62	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	nn00609724	Id of event.
Event Code	00609724	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00609724,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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