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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1312S, -117.9532WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Tonopah in Nevada. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:25:43 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:25 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.2 km, -117.9532° West, 38.1312° North. Unique identifier: nn00725291. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725291. The temblor was detected at 03:25:43 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.2 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 104 km (65 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 63 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9532° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km 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 11:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 11:30:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 449 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149.65 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 nn00725291 Id of event.
Event Code 00725291 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725291, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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