Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (17 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.7 km (5 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:17:34 / 6:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.0061 West, latitude 38.1504 North, depth = 7.7 km. Unique identifier: nn00770680. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00770680, us7000beux. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 18:17:34 / August 29, 2020 @ 6:17 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 28 km SSE of Mina, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0061° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.1504° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 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	2020-08-29 18:17:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-29 20:37:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.65	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	168	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,us,	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	0.038	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1326 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42.54	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	nn00770680	Id of event.
Event Code	00770680	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00770680,us7000beux,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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