Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Carlin in Nevada


Earthquake location 40.4382S, -116.4597WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Carlin in Nevada on Friday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:54:53 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/09/17 / 2017-09-02 05:54:53 / September 2, 2017 @ 5:54 am. Id of earthquake: nn00603209. Event ids that are associated: nn00603209. Exact location of event, depth 3.1 km, -116.4597° West, 40.4382° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.1 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Elko (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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: 42 km SW of Carlin, Nevada.

Copyright © 2017 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.4597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4382° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SW 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 2017-09-02 05:54:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-02 06:19:54 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 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 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1584 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59.87 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 nn00603209 Id of event.
Event Code 00603209 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00603209, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply