Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 39 km ESE of Mina, Nevada (24 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -117.7185° West, latitude 38.2081° North, depth = 12.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:45:44 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00797318. Event ids that are associated: nn00797318. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.7 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/01/21 / 2021-01-15 15:45:44 / January 15, 2021 @ 3:45 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km ESE of Mina, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.7185° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2081° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km ESE 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	2021-01-15 15:45:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-15 15:57:24	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	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	246	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.029	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3143 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61.17	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	nn00797318	Id of event.
Event Code	00797318	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00797318,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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