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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Lovelock in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.722S, -118.1812WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Lovelock in Nevada on Saturday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:58:24 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00637834. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00637834. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/18 / 2018-06-02 09:58:24 / June 2, 2018 @ 9:58 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.4 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -118.1812 West, latitude 39.722 North, depth = 21.4 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop).

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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km SSE of Lovelock, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1812° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.722° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km SSE 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 2018-06-02 09:58:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-02 10:03:10 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179.88 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 nn00637834 Id of event.
Event Code 00637834 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00637834, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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