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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 26 km SSE of Mina, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1721S, -117.9816WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (16 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/12/20 / 2020-12-04 22:41:15 / December 4, 2020 @ 10:41 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000cn78. Event ids that are associated: us7000cn78. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:41:15 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.9816 West, latitude 38.1721 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 26 km SSE of Mina, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9816° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 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 2020-12-04 22:41:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-04 22:50:47 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 reviewed 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000cn78 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cn78 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cn78, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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