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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Smith Valley in Nevada

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Smith Valley in Nevada on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.5770035 West, latitude 38.5636673 North, depth = -1.56 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72918986. Id of event: nc72918986. The temblor was reported at 03:04:22 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -1.56 km (-1 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/17 / 2017-11-04 11:04:22 / November 4, 2017 @ 11:04 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dayton, Carson City, Indian Hills (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-two 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SW of Smith Valley, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.5770035° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5636673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SW of Smith Valley, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-04 11:04:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-04 11:06:50	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		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	142	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nc	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.525	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	nc72918986	Id of event.
Event Code	72918986	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72918986,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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