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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1552S, -118.071WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 26 km S of Mina, Nevada (16 miles) on Saturday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:56:09 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: nn00791523. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00791523. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 09:56:09 / December 12, 2020 @ 9:56 am. Exact location of event, longitude -118.071 West, latitude 38.1552 North, depth = 13 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 26 km S 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 -118.071° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1552° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 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 2020-12-12 09:56:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-12 09:59:29 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.44 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 nn00791523 Id of event.
Event Code 00791523 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00791523, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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