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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Winnemucca in Nevada


Earthquake location 40.573S, -117.5983WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Winnemucca in Nevada on Monday. Global time and date of event 16/12/19 / 2019-12-16 08:36:24 / December 16, 2019 @ 8:36 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:36:24 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5983 West, latitude 40.573 North, depth = 15.5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00713055. Unique identifier: nn00713055.

Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Winnemucca (c. 7 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winnemucca.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km SSE of Winnemucca, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.5983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Winnemucca, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-16 08:36:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-16 08:41:12 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 automatic 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 158 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171.4 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 nn00713055 Id of event.
Event Code 00713055 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00713055, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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