Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 39 km SE of Mina, Nevada (24 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nn00742909. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00742909. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:41:30 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:41 am. The temblor was detected at 11:41:30 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.7445 West, latitude 38.1812 North, depth = 0 km.

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

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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. 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: 39 km SE of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7445° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.1812° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km SE of Mina, 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 11:41:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-04 17:35:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.409	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1584 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	243.1	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	nn00742909	Id of event.
Event Code	00742909	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00742909,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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