Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Walker Lake in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Walker Lake in Nevada. Exact location of earthquake, -118.6223° West, 38.7739° North, depth 0 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/08/24 / 2024-08-12 13:34:11 / August 12, 2024 @ 1:34 pm. Unique identifier: nn00882234. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00882234. The temblor was picked up at 13:34:11 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fallon (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.6223° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km NE of Walker Lake, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-12 13:34:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-12 13:36:26	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	158	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4806 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72.04	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	nn00882234	Id of event.
Event Code	00882234	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00882234,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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