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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Carlin in Nevada


Earthquake location 41.2895S, -116.2548WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Carlin in Nevada. The temblor was detected at 12:54:46 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 20:54:46 / May 13, 2018 @ 8:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.2548 West, latitude 41.2895 North, depth = 10.7 km. Unique identifier: nn00634933. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00634933, us1000e48g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.7 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Elko (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 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 ten 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 57 km NNW of Carlin, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.2548° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.2895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km NNW 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 2018-05-13 20:54:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 21:16:50 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 3.31 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 158 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.175 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162.74 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 nn00634933 Id of event.
Event Code 00634933 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00634933,us1000e48g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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