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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Austin in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.7993S, -117.4575WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 47 km NW of Austin, Nevada (29 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -117.4575 West, latitude 39.7993 North, depth = 4.5 km. The temblor was detected at 16:14:08 / 4:14 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00683673. Unique identifier: nn00683673. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/19 / 2019-05-01 00:14:08 / May 1, 2019 @ 12:14 am.

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

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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: 47 km NW of Austin, Nevada. This data 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 -117.4575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km 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 2019-05-01 00:14:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-01 00:33:00 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.707 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1911 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121.42 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 nn00683673 Id of event.
Event Code 00683673 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683673, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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