Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The temblor was picked up at 21:15:20 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles). Event id: nn00880592. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00880592. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 21:15:20 / July 8, 2024 @ 9:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7975 West, latitude 38.2323 North, depth = 1.3 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 35 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2323° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km SSW 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	2024-07-08 21:15:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-08 21:17:58	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	168	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.227	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4309 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78.59	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	nn00880592	Id of event.
Event Code	00880592	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00880592,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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