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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1547S, -117.9402WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 63 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (39 miles). Event id: nn00727939. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00727939. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.4 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.9402 West, latitude 38.1547 North, depth = 18.4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/20 / 2020-05-18 09:45:55 / May 18, 2020 @ 9:45 am. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:45:55 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 63 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9402° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1547° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.4 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 2020-05-18 09:45:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-18 09:50:37 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 3.53 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 211 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 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44.53 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 nn00727939 Id of event.
Event Code 00727939 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00727939, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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