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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Alamo in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.2184S, -114.98WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 23 km SE of Alamo, Nevada (14 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/19 / 2019-05-17 20:21:35 / May 17, 2019 @ 8:21 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -114.98 West, latitude 37.2184 North, depth = 3.8 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.8 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:21:35 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00685155. Event ids that are associated: nn00685155.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km SE of Alamo, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.98° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2184° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SE of Alamo, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-17 20:21:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-17 20:41:10 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 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 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.103 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163.43 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 nn00685155 Id of event.
Event Code 00685155 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00685155, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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