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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Hawthorne in Nevada

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Earthquake location 38.145S, -118.0578WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 65 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (40 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:46:16 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: nn00729215. Event ids that are associated: nn00729215. Global time and date of event 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 09:46:16 / May 20, 2020 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 9.7 km, -118.0578° West, 38.145° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.145° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-20 09:46:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 09:51:24 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 3.97 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 298 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 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48.4 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 nn00729215 Id of event.
Event Code 00729215 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00729215, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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