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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Austin in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.8226S, -117.4824WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 50 km NW of Austin, Nevada (31 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -117.4824° West, latitude 39.8226° North, depth = 0.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.5 km (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/19 / 2019-05-02 04:35:28 / May 2, 2019 @ 4:35 am. Id of earthquake: nn00683781. Event ids that are associated: nn00683781. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:35:28 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km NW of Austin, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4824° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NW of Austin, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-02 04:35:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-02 05:25:07 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 reviewed 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.71 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.121 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 nn00683781 Id of event.
Event Code 00683781 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683781, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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