Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Goldfield in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 14 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada (9 miles) on Thursday. Id of earthquake: nn00884108. Event ids that are associated: nn00884108. Exact location of event, longitude -117.0763 West, latitude 37.6734 North, depth = 15.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 17:20:02 / September 5, 2024 @ 5:20 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.9 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:20:02 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 14 km ESE of Goldfield, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.0763° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.6734° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ESE 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	2024-09-05 17:20:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-05 17:22:26	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	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	148	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.401	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5111 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104.9	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	nn00884108	Id of event.
Event Code	00884108	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00884108,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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