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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Alamo in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.2005S, -115.8828WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km WSW of Alamo, Nevada (41 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.8828 West, latitude 37.2005 North, depth = 4.7 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.7 km (3 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:40:23 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00522233. Event ids that are associated: nn00522233. Global time and date of event 11/12/15 / 2015-12-11 01:40:23 / December 11, 2015 @ 1:40 am UTC/GMT.

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km WSW of Alamo, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.8828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km WSW of Alamo, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-11 01:40:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-11 01:45:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 138 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47.24 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 nn00522233 Id of event.
Event Code 00522233 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00522233, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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