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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.212S, -117.7382WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 47 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (29 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.5 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00729332. Unique identifier: nn00729332. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 12:36:53 / May 20, 2020 @ 12:36 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:36:53 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.7382 West, latitude 38.212 North, depth = 8.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, 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 thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.212° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km WNW 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 12:36:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 12:43:58 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 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.13 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 385 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 58 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.154 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 50.56 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 nn00729332 Id of event.
Event Code 00729332 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00729332, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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