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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 13 km NE of Fernley, Nevada

Posted by admin on July 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.6888S, -119.1295WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Fernley in Nevada on Friday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:31:44 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00756451. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00756451. Exact location of event, depth 4.2 km, -119.1295° West, 39.6888° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 22:31:44 / July 3, 2020 @ 10:31 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.2 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carson City, Cold Springs, Dayton. Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km NE of Fernley, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.1295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6888° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NE of Fernley, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-03 22:31:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-03 22:37:08 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 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 148 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.95 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221.95 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 nn00756451 Id of event.
Event Code 00756451 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00756451, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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