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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.6633S, -118.4605WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada (13 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.3 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 16.3 km, -118.4605° West, 38.6633° North. The temblor was detected at 02:28:51 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00726298. Unique identifier: nn00726298. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 10:28:51 / May 16, 2020 @ 10:28 am.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km NE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.4605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6633° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE 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 2020-05-16 10:28:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 10:35:13 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 3.92 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 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 284 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210.34 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 nn00726298 Id of event.
Event Code 00726298 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00726298, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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