Minor earthquake: M3.54 quake has struck near Gerlach-Empire in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Gerlach-Empire in Nevada. Exact location of event, longitude -119.1781 West, latitude 40.1305 North, depth = 6.5606 km. Id of earthquake: nn00506293. Event ids that are associated: nn00506293. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.5606 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 22:02:37 / August 12, 2015 @ 10:02 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:02:37 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cold Springs (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cold Springs, Sparks, Fallon (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 52 km SSE of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.54 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1781° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1305° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.5606 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52km 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 22:02:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-12 22:45:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.57	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	193	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.449	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1752 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91.95	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	nn00506293	Id of event.
Event Code	00506293	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00506293,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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