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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Alamo in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.293S, -115.2149WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 km SSW of Alamo, Nevada (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 9.4 km, -115.2149° West, 37.293° North. Id of earthquake: us200062dz. Event ids that are associated: nn00546845, us200062dz. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.4 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:48:25 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/16 / 2016-06-06 20:48:25 / June 6, 2016 @ 8:48 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSW of Alamo, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.2149° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW 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 2016-06-06 20:48:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-07 17:29:35 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 3.82 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 168 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 ,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.173 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200062dz Id of event.
Event Code 200062dz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00546845,us200062dz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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