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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Fallon in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.0895S, -118.601WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Fallon in Nevada on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/19 / 2019-05-01 15:35:15 / May 1, 2019 @ 3:35 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00683698. Unique identifier: nn00683698. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.601 West, latitude 39.0895 North, depth = 14.5 km. The temblor was detected at 07:35:15 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Silver Springs, Fallon.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 45 km SSE of Fallon, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.601° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Fallon, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-01 15:35:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-01 15:38:33 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 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 automatic 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 138 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101.57 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 nn00683698 Id of event.
Event Code 00683698 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683698, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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