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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada

Posted by admin on May 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1613S, -117.9627WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 62 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (39 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 01:30:27 / May 23, 2020 @ 1:30 am. The temblor was detected at 17:30:27 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73393696, nn00731681, us70009nw7. Id of event: nn00731681. Exact location of event, depth 4.5 km, -117.9627° West, 38.1613° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km W of Tonopah, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9627° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2020-05-23 01:30:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 01:39:51 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 129 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 ,nc,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61.47 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 nn00731681 Id of event.
Event Code 00731681 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc73393696,nn00731681,us70009nw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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