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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Battle Mountain in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.5452S, -117.2265WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Battle Mountain in Nevada on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00794362. Unique identifier: nn00794362. The temblor was detected at 23:00:59 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.8 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/20 / 2020-12-23 23:00:59 / December 23, 2020 @ 11:00 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -117.2265° West, 40.5452° North, depth 5.8 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winnemucca.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km WSW of Battle Mountain, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5452° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km WSW of Battle Mountain, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-23 23:00:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 19:36:00 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 2.13 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 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.0999 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157.9 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 nn00794362 Id of event.
Event Code 00794362 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00794362, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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