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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada


Earthquake location 37.264S, -116.6248WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada (25 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00783307. Unique identifier: nn00783307. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.4 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:17:57 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/11/20 / 2020-11-13 17:17:57 / November 13, 2020 @ 5:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -116.6248° West, latitude 37.264° North, depth = 12.4 km.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.6248° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km NNE of Beatty, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-13 17:17:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-13 17:26:37 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 3.51 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 222 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 nn00783307 Id of event.
Event Code 00783307 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00783307, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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