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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Battle Mountain in Nevada


Earthquake location 41.1658S, -116.8464WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Battle Mountain in Nevada. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 21:48:09 / December 16, 2018 @ 9:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -116.8464° West, 41.1658° North, depth 0 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00670366. Id of event: nn00670366. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:48:09 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winnemucca.

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 was reported nearby. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km N of Battle Mountain, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.8464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.1658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km N of Battle Mountain, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-16 21:48:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-17 00:34:32 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 148 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.378 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2105 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 267.36 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 explosion Type of seismic event.
Event ID nn00670366 Id of event.
Event Code 00670366 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00670366, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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