Light earthquake: M4.61 quake has struck near Nevada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.61 (ml/mb) was reported Nevada (0 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.023 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 0.023 km, -119.6535° West, 41.8048333° North. The temblor was detected at 01:05:34 / 1:05 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: uw61045932. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72495151, nn00503760, uw61045932, us20003098. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 01:05:34 / July 27, 2015 @ 1:05 am.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.61 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6535° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8048333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.023 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-27 01:05:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-27 05:45:45	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	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	327	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uw	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,nn,uw,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	uw61045932	Id of event.
Event Code	61045932	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72495151,nn00503760,uw61045932,us20003098,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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