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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Carlin in Nevada


Earthquake location 40.4551S, -116.1252WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Carlin in Nevada. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/18 / 2018-11-11 06:44:56 / November 11, 2018 @ 6:44 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00665118. Id of event: nn00665118. Exact location, longitude -116.1252° West, latitude 40.4551° North, depth = 7.6 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:44:56 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.6 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spring Creek, Elko. Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Elko (c. 18 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Spring Creek (c. 12 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 seven 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km S of Carlin, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.1252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4551° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km S 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 2018-11-11 06:44:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-11 14:34:43 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 168 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1846 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83.14 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 nn00665118 Id of event.
Event Code 00665118 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00665118, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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