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Moderate earthquake 5.42 mag, 39 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada

Posted by admin on May 22, 2015 3 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2963S, -114.7032WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.42 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Caliente in Nevada. The temblor was reported at 11:47:43 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 19.35 km (12 miles). Global time of event 22/05/15 / 2015-05-22 18:47:43 / May 22, 2015 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -114.7032 West, latitude 37.2963 North, depth 19.35 km, unique identifier, nn00495477. Ids that are associated to the event, ,nn00495477,.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Saint George, Santa Clara.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -114.7032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2963° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SSW of Caliente, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-22 18:47:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-22 18:52:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 456 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.342 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233.29 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 nn00495477 Id of event.
Event Code 00495477 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00495477, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Cher

    Felt it in St George!

    May 22, 2015
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  2. Shirley

    Felt like someone was trying to jerk my chair out from under me..

    May 22, 2015
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  3. Christine Muldoon

    My job felt it. we are on East Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas

    May 22, 2015
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