Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Carlin in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Carlin in Nevada. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/20 / 2020-03-02 12:56:26 / March 2, 2020 @ 12:56 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:56:26 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00718129. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00718129. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.1755 West, latitude 40.5643 North, depth = 11.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spring Creek, Elko. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (28 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 has occurred 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SSW of Carlin, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.1755° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km SSW of Carlin, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-02 12:56:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-02 17:41:13	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	222	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.361	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93.79	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	nn00718129	Id of event.
Event Code	00718129	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00718129,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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