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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 67 km W of Tonopah, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.16S, -117.993WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 67 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (42 miles). Unique identifier: nn00730461. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00730461. Exact location, longitude -117.993° West, latitude 38.16° North, depth = 10.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:33:10 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 16:33:10 / May 21, 2020 @ 4:33 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.4 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 fifteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 67 km W of Tonopah, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.993° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.16° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2020-05-21 16:33:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-21 16:39:29 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 2.2 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 139 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.24 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 nn00730461 Id of event.
Event Code 00730461 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00730461, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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