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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Austin in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.7127S, -117.4548WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 41 km NW of Austin, Nevada (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4548 West, latitude 39.7127 North, depth = 6.4 km. The temblor was reported at 22:02:56 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.4 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/04/19 / 2019-04-30 06:02:56 / April 30, 2019 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nn00683604. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00683604.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km NW of Austin, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4548° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NW of Austin, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-30 06:02:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-30 16:44:33 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 3.668 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 188 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2498 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70.78 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 nn00683604 Id of event.
Event Code 00683604 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683604, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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