A 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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