Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Cowles in Nebraska

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cowles in Nebraska on Monday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:46:08 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.3217° West, 40.1736° North, depth 9.704 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pfqj. Id of event: us7000pfqj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.704 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 02:46:08 / February 24, 2025 @ 2:46 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hastings (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 46 km (29 miles) from Hastings (c. 24 900 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km E of Cowles, Nebraska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.3217° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1736° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.704 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km E of Cowles, Nebraska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-24 02:46:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-24 02:52:28	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.24	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pfqj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pfqj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pfqj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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