Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Mina in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 20 km S of Mina, Nevada (12 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 02:52:33 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.1 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, depth 13.1 km, -118.1005° West, 38.2038° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 02:52:33 / December 2, 2020 @ 2:52 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00787350. Id of event: nn00787350.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 20 km S of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.1005° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km S 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	2020-12-02 02:52:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-02 03:01:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	158	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.041	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77.62	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	nn00787350	Id of event.
Event Code	00787350	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00787350,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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