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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Carlin in Nevada

Posted by admin on August 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.4768S, -116.0543WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Carlin in Nevada. Exact location of event, longitude -116.0543 West, latitude 40.4768 North, depth = 21.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/20 / 2020-08-03 23:50:02 / August 3, 2020 @ 11:50 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:50:02 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.3 km (13 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b8xj, nn00765478. Id of event: nn00765478.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spring Creek, Elko (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 48 km (30 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 two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 26 km S of Carlin, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.0543° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km S of Carlin, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-03 23:50:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-04 00:10:52 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 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 ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.504 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170.86 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 nn00765478 Id of event.
Event Code 00765478 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8xj,nn00765478, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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