Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Austin in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 km NW of Austin, Nevada (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4548 West, latitude 39.7127 North, depth = 6.4 km. The temblor was reported at 22:02:56 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.4 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 06:02:56 / April 30, 2019 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nn00683604. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00683604.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 41 km NW of Austin, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4548° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.7127° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km 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	2019-04-30 06:02:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-30 16:44:33	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	3.668	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	0.652	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2498 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70.78	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	nn00683604	Id of event.
Event Code	00683604	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00683604,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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