Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Caliente in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Caliente in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Event id: nn00592317. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00592317. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/17 / 2017-06-14 06:13:20 / June 14, 2017 @ 6:13 am. Exact location of earthquake, -114.2875° West, 37.3928° North, depth 7 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:20 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Saint George, Mesquite (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SE of Caliente, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.2875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3928° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SE of Caliente, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-14 06:13:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-14 11:57:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	3.4	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	158	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.349	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.149 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65.36	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	nn00592317	Id of event.
Event Code	00592317	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00592317,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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