Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 69 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 69 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada (43 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 00:14:59 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00802216. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00802216. Global time and date of event 09/03/21 / 2021-03-09 00:14:59 / March 9, 2021 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -117.5043° West, 37.1218° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5043° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.1218° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-09 00:14:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-09 00:19:08	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	3.58	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	178	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49.1	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	nn00802216	Id of event.
Event Code	00802216	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00802216,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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