Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Fallon in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Fallon in Nevada on Wednesday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:39:36 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/16 / 2016-12-28 08:39:36 / December 28, 2016 @ 8:39 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00570718. Id of event: nn00570718. Exact location of event, longitude -118.3595 West, latitude 39.1938 North, depth = 9.9 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Fallon (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km SE of Fallon, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.3595° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1938° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47km SE of Fallon, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-12-28 08:39:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-28 08:53:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	139	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.732	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	208.05	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	nn00570718	Id of event.
Event Code	00570718	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00570718,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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