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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1498S, -117.9738WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (18 miles). Global time and date of event 27/06/20 / 2020-06-27 08:38:54 / June 27, 2020 @ 8:38 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.9 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:38:54 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.9738° West, latitude 38.1498° North, depth = 14.9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00754403. Unique identifier: nn00754403.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9738° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-27 08:38:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-27 08:42:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.006 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59.59 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 nn00754403 Id of event.
Event Code 00754403 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00754403, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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