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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1792S, -117.8788WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada (19 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00738210. Unique identifier: nn00738210. Exact location of earthquake, -117.8788° West, 38.1792° North, depth 7 km. Global time and date of event 29/05/20 / 2020-05-29 15:03:40 / May 29, 2020 @ 3:03 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:03:40 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8788° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1792° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-29 15:03:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-29 15:08:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47.65 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 nn00738210 Id of event.
Event Code 00738210 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00738210, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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