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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Goldfield in Nevada


Earthquake location 37.1251S, -117.4961WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 68 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada (42 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.4961 West, latitude 37.1251 North, depth = 4.93 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:14:59 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.93 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000dh9m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00802216, us7000dh9m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/03/21 / 2021-03-09 00:14:59 / March 9, 2021 @ 12:14 am.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 68 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4961° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km SSW of Goldfield, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-09 00:14:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-09 00:30:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.43 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000dh9m Id of event.
Event Code 7000dh9m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00802216,us7000dh9m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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