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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Denio Junction in Nevada


Earthquake location 41.982S, -118.5809WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 4 km NE of Denio Junction, Nevada (2 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00608832. Unique identifier: nn00608832. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/10/17 / 2017-10-11 03:01:25 / October 11, 2017 @ 3:01 am UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:01:25 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.5809 West, latitude 41.982 North, depth = 11.1 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 4 km NE of Denio Junction, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5809° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE of Denio Junction, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-10-11 03:01:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-11 03:36:09 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 3.46 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 188 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.454 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2261 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204.63 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 nn00608832 Id of event.
Event Code 00608832 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00608832, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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