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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Carlin in Nevada


Earthquake location 40.8043S, -115.9689WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Carlin in Nevada. The temblor was reported at 04:03:45 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.8 km, -115.9689° West, 40.8043° North. Global time and date of event 01/09/17 / 2017-09-01 12:03:45 / September 1, 2017 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00603094. Id of event: nn00603094.

Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spring Creek, Elko (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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km NE of Carlin, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.9689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE of Carlin, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-01 12:03:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 15:05:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 3.07 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 178 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2118 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135.91 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 nn00603094 Id of event.
Event Code 00603094 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00603094, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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