Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Goldfield in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada (7 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.1 km, -117.0991° West, 37.7523° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.1 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00884400. Id of event: nn00884400. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 11:00:45 / September 9, 2024 @ 11:00 am. The temblor was detected at 11:00:45 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km ENE of Goldfield, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.0991° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.7523° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km ENE 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	2024-09-09 11:00:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-09 11:04:37	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	148	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.47	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2105 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	155.9	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	nn00884400	Id of event.
Event Code	00884400	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00884400,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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