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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 8 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada


Earthquake location 40.026S, -119.621WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sutcliffe in Nevada on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/20 / 2020-07-08 23:49:51 / July 8, 2020 @ 11:49 pm. The temblor was reported at 23:49:51 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.7 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -119.621° West, latitude 40.026° North, depth = 7.7 km. Id of earthquake: nn00758343. Event ids that are associated: nn00758343.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Reno, Fernley (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.621° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.026° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NNW of Sutcliffe, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-08 23:49:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-09 00:00:56 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171.83 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 nn00758343 Id of event.
Event Code 00758343 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00758343, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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