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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tonopah in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1755S, -117.8524WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 54 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (34 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:12:45 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00728819. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009l76, nn00728819. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -117.8524° West, latitude 38.1755° North, depth = 7.7 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.7 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 22:12:45 / May 19, 2020 @ 10:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 54 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8524° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1755° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km 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 2020-05-19 22:12:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 22:44:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 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 326 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 ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2118 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47.63 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 nn00728819 Id of event.
Event Code 00728819 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009l76,nn00728819, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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