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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Winnemucca in Nevada

Posted by admin on September 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.126S, -117.1708WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Winnemucca in Nevada on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 05:16:03 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -117.1708° West, latitude 41.126° North, depth = 7.4 km. Unique identifier: nn00558878. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00558878. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 12:16:03 / September 4, 2016 @ 12:16 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.4 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winnemucca. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 50 km ENE of Winnemucca, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.1708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.126° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ENE of Winnemucca, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 12:16:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 12:21:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.611 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 158.43 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 nn00558878 Id of event.
Event Code 00558878 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00558878, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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