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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1533S, -118.0233WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 27 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (17 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:35:17 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.68 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 12:35:17 / September 8, 2020 @ 12:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -118.0233° West, 38.1533° North, depth 8.68 km. Unique identifier: us7000bjq0. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bjq0.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SSE of Mina, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0233° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SSE 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 2020-09-08 12:35:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-08 12:43:08 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 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us7000bjq0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bjq0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bjq0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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