Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Mina in Nevada

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mina in Nevada on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 8.9 km, -118.0575° West, 38.173° North. Global time and date of event 03/12/20 / 2020-12-03 05:15:29 / December 3, 2020 @ 5:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:15:29 / 5:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.9 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00788443. Id of event: nn00788443. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 24 km S of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0575° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.173° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 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	2020-12-03 05:15:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-03 05:21:37	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	2.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.44	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	385	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41.05	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	nn00788443	Id of event.
Event Code	00788443	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00788443,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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