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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1723S, -117.8572WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 32 km SE of Mina, Nevada (20 miles) on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 00:46:39 / 12:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -117.8572 West, latitude 38.1723 North, depth = 6.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00784390. Unique identifier: nn00784390. Global time and date of event 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 00:46:39 / November 16, 2020 @ 12:46 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.4 km (4 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 32 km SE of Mina, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8572° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 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 2020-11-16 00:46:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 00:51:12 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 2.92 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37.32 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 nn00784390 Id of event.
Event Code 00784390 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00784390, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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