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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1662S, -118.0723WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Mina in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:50:52 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.0723° West, latitude 38.1662° North, depth = 11.9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 07:50:52 / December 12, 2020 @ 7:50 am. Id of earthquake: nn00791435. Event ids that are associated: nn00791435.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 25 km S of Mina, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 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 2020-12-12 07:50:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-12 07:54:29 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 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41.83 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 nn00791435 Id of event.
Event Code 00791435 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00791435, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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