Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Denio Junction in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 66 km SSW of Denio Junction, Nevada (41 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00524304. Unique identifier: nn00524304. Exact location, longitude -119.0192° West, latitude 41.4343° North, depth = 17.8 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/15 / 2015-12-28 15:03:39 / December 28, 2015 @ 3:03 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:03:39 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.8 km (11 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 66 km SSW of Denio Junction, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0192° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.4343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km SSW of Denio Junction, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-28 15:03:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-28 15:09:42	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	3.13	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	188	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.717	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	76.38	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	nn00524304	Id of event.
Event Code	00524304	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00524304,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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