Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Gabbs in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 58 km ESE of Gabbs, Nevada (36 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:09:08 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00725277. Event ids that are associated: nn00725277. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.7 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:09:08 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:09 am. Exact location, longitude -117.2957° West, latitude 38.6698° North, depth = 2.7 km.

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

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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. 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: 58 km ESE of Gabbs, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.2957° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6698° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58km ESE of Gabbs, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-15 11:09:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-15 11:13:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.46	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	223	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.856	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	195.35	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	nn00725277	Id of event.
Event Code	00725277	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00725277,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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