Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Goldfield in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada (17 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 18:43:58 / July 3, 2020 @ 6:43 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.3 km (10 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:43:58 / 6:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.4408 West, latitude 37.5137 North, depth = 16.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00756389. Unique identifier: nn00756389.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 28 km SW of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.4408° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.5137° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km SW of Goldfield, 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 18:43:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 18:49:49	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	2.91	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	188	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	42	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.271	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62.27	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	nn00756389	Id of event.
Event Code	00756389	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00756389,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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