A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Exact location, longitude -118.4007° West, latitude 37.9934° North, depth = 0.7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73175270, nn00683728. Id of event: nn00683728. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/19 / 2019-05-01 19:30:20 / May 1, 2019 @ 7:30 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.7 km (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:30:20 / 11:30 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 62 km SSE of Hawthorne, Nevada.
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