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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Winnemucca in Nevada

Posted by admin on March 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.6532S, -117.5609WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Winnemucca in Nevada on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: nn00680466. Event ids that are associated: nn00680466. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 14:51:55 / March 20, 2019 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -117.5609° West, latitude 40.6532° North, depth = 7.7 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:51:55 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.7 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winnemucca. Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 four 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 38 km SSE of Winnemucca, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km SSE of Winnemucca, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-20 14:51:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-20 16:42:33 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 3.542 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.958 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2497 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91.21 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 nn00680466 Id of event.
Event Code 00680466 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00680466, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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