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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Smith Valley in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 3, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.6148S, -119.4025WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Smith Valley in Nevada. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.1 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, depth 16.1 km, -119.4025° West, 38.6148° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00521169, nc72563516. Id of event: nn00521169. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 02:11:36 / December 3, 2015 @ 2:11 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:11:36 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dayton, Carson City, Indian Hills. Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.4025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-03 02:11:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 02:17:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 148 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,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.322 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 55.27 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 nn00521169 Id of event.
Event Code 00521169 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00521169,nc72563516, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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