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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Austin in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.7957S, -117.4572WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 47 km NW of Austin, Nevada (29 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -117.4572° West, 39.7957° North, depth 4.8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00683441. Event ids that are associated: nn00683441. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 17:10:40 / April 28, 2019 @ 5:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 09:10:40 / 9:10 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 47 km NW of Austin, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7957° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NW of Austin, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-28 17:10:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 18:40:45 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 4.06 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1047 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70.61 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 nn00683441 Id of event.
Event Code 00683441 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683441, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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