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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.2812S, -118.6473WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:41:13 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73000411, nn00630673. Id of event: nn00630673. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 16:41:13 / April 17, 2018 @ 4:41 pm. Exact location, longitude -118.6473° West, latitude 38.2812° North, depth = 11.9 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 27 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.6473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km S 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 2018-04-17 16:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-17 16:46:02 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 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 ,nc,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71.15 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 nn00630673 Id of event.
Event Code 00630673 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73000411,nn00630673, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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