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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1785S, -117.7757WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 49 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (30 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70009hqu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009hqu. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:32:15 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7757 West, latitude 38.1785 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 04:32:15 / May 16, 2020 @ 4:32 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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: 49 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7757° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km WNW 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 2020-05-16 04:32:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-16 04:42:50 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 reviewed 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.392 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us70009hqu Id of event.
Event Code 70009hqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009hqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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