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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1507S, -117.947WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (39 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 11:53:52 / May 17, 2020 @ 11:53 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:53:52 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.947 West, latitude 38.1507 North, depth = 12.5 km. Event id: nn00727244. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00727244. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.5 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 63 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.947° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.5 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 2020-05-17 11:53:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 12:02:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.29 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 312 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53.55 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 nn00727244 Id of event.
Event Code 00727244 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00727244, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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