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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Winnemucca in Nevada


Earthquake location 41.0338S, -117.4406WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Winnemucca in Nevada on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -117.4406 West, latitude 41.0338 North, depth = 11.2 km. Id of earthquake: nn00629921. Event ids that are associated: nn00629921. The temblor was detected at 23:19:53 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/04/18 / 2018-04-10 07:19:53 / April 10, 2018 @ 7:19 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.2 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winnemucca (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km ENE of Winnemucca, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4406° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.0338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ENE of Winnemucca, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-10 07:19:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-10 14:59:10 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 2.58 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1752 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108.53 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 nn00629921 Id of event.
Event Code 00629921 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00629921, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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