Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (41 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 17:42:25 / May 15, 2020 @ 5:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nn00725538. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725538. The temblor was reported at 09:42:25 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.0565 West, latitude 38.125 North, depth = 9 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-eight, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0565° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.125° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km 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 17:42:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-15 17:46:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.14	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	178	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.36	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114.23	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	nn00725538	Id of event.
Event Code	00725538	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00725538,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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