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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Currant in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.3543S, -115.3187WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 45 km SSE of Currant, Nevada (28 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:39:31 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008tmv. Id of event: us70008tmv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 02:39:31 / April 11, 2020 @ 2:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.3187 West, latitude 38.3543 North, depth = 5 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 45 km SSE of Currant, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.3187° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Currant, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-11 02:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-11 02:54:40 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 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 199 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.768 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us70008tmv Id of event.
Event Code 70008tmv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008tmv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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