Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Nevada kilometers (0 miles) from Nevada. Exact location, longitude -119.7417° West, latitude 39.4382° North, depth = 6.7 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/16 / 2016-07-31 19:00:06 / July 31, 2016 @ 7:00 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:00:06 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00553959. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00553959, nc72670151. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (7 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7417° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4382° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-31 19:00:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-31 19:05:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	149	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,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.104	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	40.68	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	nn00553959	Id of event.
Event Code	00553959	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00553959,nc72670151,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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