A 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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