Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Austin in Nevada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 49 km NW of Austin, Nevada (30 miles). Unique identifier: nn00683435. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00683435. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.3 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.5328 West, latitude 39.756 North, depth = 19.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:03:17 / 9:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 17:03:17 / April 28, 2019 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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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. 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: 49 km NW of Austin, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.5328° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.756° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NW of Austin, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-04-28 17:03:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-28 17:08:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	4.031	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	259	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.643	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72.72	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	nn00683435	Id of event.
Event Code	00683435	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00683435,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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