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Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Cold Springs in NV

Posted by admin on February 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.652668S, -120.0356674WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cold Springs in NV on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73346460. Id of event: nc73346460. Exact location of earthquake, -120.0356674° West, 39.652668° North, depth 1.49 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 18:44:16 / February 26, 2020 @ 6:44 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.49 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:44:16 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Johnson Lane, Fernley.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km WSW of Cold Springs, NV.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0356674° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.652668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Cold Springs, NV Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-26 18:44:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-26 18:46:17 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 125 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73346460 Id of event.
Event Code 73346460 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73346460, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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