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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Goldfield in Nevada

Posted by admin on September 4, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.7369S, -117.1425WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada (5 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.6 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nprj, nn00883951. Unique identifier: nn00883951. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/09/24 / 2024-09-04 21:30:36 / September 4, 2024 @ 9:30 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:30:36 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.1425° West, 37.7369° North, depth 8.6 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.1425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.7369° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-04 21:30:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-04 21:51:27 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 2.759 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 ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.194 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2107 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94.33 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 nn00883951 Id of event.
Event Code 00883951 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nprj,nn00883951, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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