Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Carlin in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Carlin in Nevada on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.1 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00603500. Id of event: nn00603500. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.9973 West, latitude 40.7651 North, depth = 2.1 km. The temblor was reported at 02:49:02 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/17 / 2017-09-04 10:49:02 / September 4, 2017 @ 10:49 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spring Creek, Elko (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 10 km ENE of Carlin, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.9973° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7651° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km ENE of Carlin, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-04 10:49:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-04 15:43:36	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	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.24	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	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,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.304	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.206 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	113.75	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	nn00603500	Id of event.
Event Code	00603500	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00603500,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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