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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Valentine in Nebraska


Earthquake location 43.0115S, -100.6137WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 km NNW of Valentine, Nebraska (10 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gahm. Id of event: us2000gahm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:11:30 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/18 / 2018-07-21 07:11:30 / July 21, 2018 @ 7:11 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.6137 West, latitude 43.0115 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNW of Valentine, Nebraska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.6137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNW of Valentine, Nebraska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-21 07:11:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-21 07:32:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.01 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 193 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 ,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 0.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000gahm Id of event.
Event Code 2000gahm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gahm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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