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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1805S, -118.0672WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (38 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.5 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 16:07:49 / May 15, 2020 @ 4:07 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:07:49 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725476, us70009gxc. Id of event: nn00725476. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.0672 West, latitude 38.1805 North, depth = 1.5 km.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1805° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 16:07:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 16:25:19 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 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 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 148 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128.66 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 nn00725476 Id of event.
Event Code 00725476 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725476,us70009gxc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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