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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag has occurred near Gerlach-Empire in Nevada

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) strikes 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gerlach-Empire in Nevada on Wednesday. The 3.68-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:02:36 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.1456 West, latitude 40.1578 North, depth = 9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00506286. Unique identifier: nn00506286. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 22:02:36 / August 12, 2015 @ 10:02 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sparks, Lemmon Valley, Silver Springs (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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: 50 km SSE of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1456° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1578° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km SSE of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-12 22:02:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-12 22:04:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	208	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.484	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	236.55	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	nn00506286	Id of event.
Event Code	00506286	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00506286,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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