Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Stapleton in Nebraska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Stapleton in Nebraska on Thursday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:15:02 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -100.176 West, latitude 41.3569 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 13:15:02 / April 19, 2018 @ 1:15 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000dnku. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dnku.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from North Platte (c. 24 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lexington (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lexington, North Platte (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 31 km ESE of Stapleton, Nebraska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.176° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.3569° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ESE of Stapleton, Nebraska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-19 13:15:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-19 13:38:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	169	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	1.381	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dnku	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dnku	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dnku,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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