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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1743S, -117.7262WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 45 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (28 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 21:59:42 / May 15, 2020 @ 9:59 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00725743. Unique identifier: nn00725743. Exact location of event, longitude -117.7262 West, latitude 38.1743 North, depth = 9.9 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:59:42 / 1:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-nine, in the last 10 days ninety-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 45 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-15 21:59:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 22:05:48 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 3.73 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58.33 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 nn00725743 Id of event.
Event Code 00725743 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725743, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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