Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Warm Springs in Nevada

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 30 km NW of Warm Springs, Nevada (19 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:53:48 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -116.6437° West, 38.3806° North, depth 0 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 09:53:48 / May 23, 2019 @ 9:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00685593. Event ids that are associated: nn00685593, us60003r3q.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: 30 km NW of Warm Springs, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.6437° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3806° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km NW of Warm Springs, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-23 09:53:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-23 11:21:13	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	4.431	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	271	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.548	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2565 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66.84	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	nn00685593	Id of event.
Event Code	00685593	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00685593,us60003r3q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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