Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Currant in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 km SSE of Currant, Nevada (28 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.3 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:39:32 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 02:39:32 / April 11, 2020 @ 2:39 am. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00721556, us70008tmv. Unique identifier: nn00721556. Exact location of event, longitude -115.2451 West, latitude 38.3277 North, depth = 6.3 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 45 km SSE of Currant, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.2451° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3277° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3 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 02:39:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-11 03:14:39	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	3.75	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	234	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.268	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1514 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78.75	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	nn00721556	Id of event.
Event Code	00721556	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00721556,us70008tmv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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