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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.0827S, -118.516WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 12:23:41 / May 17, 2020 @ 12:23 pm. Id of earthquake: nn00727265. Event ids that are associated: nn00727265. Exact location of event, depth 0.2 km, -118.516° West, 38.0827° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.2 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:23:41 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.0827° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km S 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 2020-05-17 12:23:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 12:27:23 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58.57 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 nn00727265 Id of event.
Event Code 00727265 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00727265, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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