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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Gardnerville Ranchos in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.8037S, -119.631WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos in Nevada. Exact location of event, longitude -119.631 West, latitude 38.8037 North, depth = 17.1 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00591852, nc72813401. Unique identifier: nn00591852. Global time and date of event 10/06/17 / 2017-06-10 04:31:06 / June 10, 2017 @ 4:31 am UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:31:06 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 17.1 km (11 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Truckee (c. 16 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pollock Pines, Reno, Sparks.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 13 km SE of Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.8037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-10 04:31:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-10 04:36:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 189 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.41 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 44.96 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 nn00591852 Id of event.
Event Code 00591852 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00591852,nc72813401, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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