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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 km NW of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada (6 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 23:04:58 / May 15, 2016 @ 11:04 pm. Exact location, longitude -119.4554° West, latitude 40.6509° North, depth = 0 km. Event id: nn00544247. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00544247. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:04:58 / 4:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven 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. 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: 10 km NW of Gerlach-Empire, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.4554° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.6509° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NW 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	2016-05-15 23:04:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-15 23:20:34	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	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	138	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2144 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77.94	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	nn00544247	Id of event.
Event Code	00544247	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00544247,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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