Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Eureka in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 km NE of Eureka, Nevada (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.85 West, latitude 39.581 North, depth = 12.3 km. Event id: nn00540491. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00540491. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:50:47 / 11:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 06:50:47 / April 14, 2016 @ 6:50 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.3 km (8 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km NE of Eureka, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-115.85° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.581° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NE of Eureka, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-14 06:50:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-14 06:55:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	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	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.947	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	71.98	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	nn00540491	Id of event.
Event Code	00540491	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00540491,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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