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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 3 km SSW of Tonopah, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.038S, -117.2473WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 3 km SSW of Tonopah, Nevada (2 miles). Event id: nn00725591. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725591. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.7 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -117.2473° West, 38.038° North, depth 0.7 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 18:48:53 / May 15, 2020 @ 6:48 pm. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:48:53 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km SSW of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.2473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSW 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 18:48:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 18:52:42 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 138 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180.11 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 nn00725591 Id of event.
Event Code 00725591 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725591, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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