Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Indian Springs in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Indian Springs in Nevada. Global time and date of event 14/08/24 / 2024-08-14 03:12:27 / August 14, 2024 @ 3:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -115.7365° West, latitude 36.6098° North, depth = 11.8 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:12:27 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00882329. Event ids that are associated: nn00882329. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enterprise, Paradise, Winchester. Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Las Vegas (c. 583 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Paradise (c. 223 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from North Las Vegas (c. 217 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sunrise Manor (c. 189 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Spring Valley (c. 178 400 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.7365° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6098° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km NW of Indian Springs, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-14 03:12:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-14 04:45:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	150	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.189	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1207 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112.13	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	nn00882329	Id of event.
Event Code	00882329	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00882329,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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