Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Mesquite in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mesquite in Nevada on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 3.76 km, -113.8873° West, 36.5722° North. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:03:51 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/17 / 2017-08-28 15:03:51 / August 28, 2017 @ 3:03 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000achu. Unique identifier: us2000achu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.76 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Ivins, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km SSE of Mesquite, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-113.8873° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5722° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SSE of Mesquite, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-28 15:03:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-28 15:27:22	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	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	168	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.677	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us2000achu	Id of event.
Event Code	2000achu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000achu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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