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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 41 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.882S, -118.48WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.6 km (27 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 13:02:27 / May 15, 2020 @ 1:02 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725347. Id of event: nn00725347. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:02:27 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 43.6 km, -118.48° West, 38.882° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-two, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 41 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.48° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.882° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NNE 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 2020-05-15 13:02:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 13:06:25 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 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.178 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105.15 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 nn00725347 Id of event.
Event Code 00725347 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725347, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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