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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1057S, -118.0558WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 68 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (42 miles) on Saturday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:12:42 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00726335. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00726335. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.0558 West, latitude 38.1057 North, depth = 6.8 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 11:12:42 / May 16, 2020 @ 11:12 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 68 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1057° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-16 11:12:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 11:19:21 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 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 0.761 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159.86 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 nn00726335 Id of event.
Event Code 00726335 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00726335, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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