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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 31 km WNW of Alamo, Nevada (19 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00715882. Unique identifier: nn00715882. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.2 km (2 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:33:00 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -115.5081 West, latitude 37.4538 North, depth = 3.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 17:33:00 / January 25, 2020 @ 5:33 pm.

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 ten 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 31 km WNW of Alamo, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.5081° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4538° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km WNW 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	2020-01-25 17:33:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-25 17:36:36	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.269	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2739 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65.53	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	nn00715882	Id of event.
Event Code	00715882	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00715882,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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