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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1733S, -117.9536WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (40 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.9 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 13:51:37 / May 15, 2020 @ 1:51 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9536 West, latitude 38.1733 North, depth = 5.9 km. The temblor was detected at 05:51:37 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725387. Id of event: nn00725387.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km W 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 13:51:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 14:31:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.07 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 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 285 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1687 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90.3 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 nn00725387 Id of event.
Event Code 00725387 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725387, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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