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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Osino in Nevada


Earthquake location 41.2225S, -115.978WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Osino in Nevada on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/20 / 2020-06-07 08:56:17 / June 7, 2020 @ 8:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.2 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a7fi, nn00744542. Unique identifier: nn00744542. Exact location of event, longitude -115.978 West, latitude 41.2225 North, depth = 13.2 km. The temblor was reported at 08:56:17 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spring Creek, Elko (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km NW of Osino, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.2225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km NW of Osino, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-07 08:56:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-07 10:28:36 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 3.22 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 nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1592 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.82 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 nn00744542 Id of event.
Event Code 00744542 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a7fi,nn00744542, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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