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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1378S, -118.0097WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (42 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:30:16 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:30 am. The temblor was detected at 03:30:16 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.0097 West, latitude 38.1378 North, depth = 4.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: nn00725296. Event ids that are associated: nn00725296. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 68 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1378° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SE of Hawthorne, 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 11:30:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 11:36:14 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 4.02 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 284 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.401 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86.77 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 nn00725296 Id of event.
Event Code 00725296 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725296, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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