Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Goldfield in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada (6 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:43:45 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.1354° West, 37.7331° North, depth 13.2 km. Unique identifier: nn00884163. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00884163. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.2 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/09/24 / 2024-09-05 21:43:45 / September 5, 2024 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 9 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.1354° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7331° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ENE 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 21:43:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-05 21:46:31	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	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2518 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101.96	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	nn00884163	Id of event.
Event Code	00884163	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00884163,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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