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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1755S, -117.8848WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada (19 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 6.7 km, -117.8848° West, 38.1755° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/20 / 2020-06-27 23:10:56 / June 27, 2020 @ 11:10 pm. Unique identifier: nn00754672. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00754672. The temblor was detected at 23:10:56 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-one 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. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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: 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SE 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 23:10:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-27 23:14:50 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 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.069 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 82.2 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 nn00754672 Id of event.
Event Code 00754672 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00754672, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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