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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1358S, -118.0157WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (18 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 16:57:37 / June 15, 2020 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -118.0157 West, latitude 38.1358 North, depth = 6.9 km. Id of earthquake: nn00748970. Event ids that are associated: nn00748970. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:57:37 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.9 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km SSE of Mina, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0157° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km SSE 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 2020-06-15 16:57:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-15 17:03:51 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 138 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54.51 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 nn00748970 Id of event.
Event Code 00748970 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00748970, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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