Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported Nevada (0 miles) on Saturday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:13:38 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: nn00780182. Event ids that are associated: us6000cchd, nn00780182. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/10/20 / 2020-10-24 06:13:38 / October 24, 2020 @ 6:13 am. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7647 West, latitude 38.1807 North, depth = 10.9 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7647° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.1807° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-24 06:13:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-24 06:23:05	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	,us,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.029	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59.71	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	nn00780182	Id of event.
Event Code	00780182	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cchd,nn00780182,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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