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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.176S, -117.8851WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 58 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (36 miles) on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:26:01 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:26 am. 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: nn00725290, us70009gjk. Id of event: us70009gjk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8851 West, latitude 38.176 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:26:01 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 11:26:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 12:01:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 89 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.46 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 418 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009gjk Id of event.
Event Code 70009gjk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725290,us70009gjk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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