Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Indian Springs in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Indian Springs in Nevada on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -115.7309 West, latitude 36.6463 North, depth = 11.8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 14:06:16 / August 14, 2024 @ 2:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00882407. Id of event: nn00882407. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:06:16 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Las Vegas (c. 583 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from North Las Vegas (c. 217 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sunrise Manor (c. 189 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Spring Valley (c. 178 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Pahrump (c. 36 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sunrise Manor, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.7309° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6463° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-14 14:06:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-14 15:03:09	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	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.186	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1486 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53.9	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	nn00882407	Id of event.
Event Code	00882407	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00882407,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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