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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1714S, -118.0648WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 24 km S of Mina, Nevada (15 miles) on Tuesday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:43:08 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -118.0648 West, latitude 38.1714 North, depth = 4.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/20 / 2020-12-01 23:43:08 / December 1, 2020 @ 11:43 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00787124, us7000cluq. Unique identifier: nn00787124.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 24 km S of Mina, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1714° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S 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 2020-12-01 23:43:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-02 01:01:48 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 4.1 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 284 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1434 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41.85 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 nn00787124 Id of event.
Event Code 00787124 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00787124,us7000cluq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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