Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (40 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:40:58 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 10:40:58 / May 20, 2020 @ 10:40 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00729257. Id of event: nn00729257. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -117.9582 West, latitude 38.1527 North, depth = 7.8 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.9582° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.1527° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km 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	2020-05-20 10:40:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-20 10:44:56	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125.39	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	nn00729257	Id of event.
Event Code	00729257	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00729257,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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