Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Walker Lake in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 18 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada (11 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us7000n974. Event ids that are associated: us7000n974. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:57:04 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.426 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/24 / 2024-08-24 13:57:04 / August 24, 2024 @ 1:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -118.548° West, latitude 38.6833° North, depth = 9.426 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.548° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6833° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.426 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE 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	2024-08-24 13:57:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-24 14:12:55	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	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.318	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us7000n974	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n974	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n974,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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