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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1045S, -118.5245WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. The temblor was detected at 01:19:22 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.5245° West, latitude 38.1045° North, depth = 12.6 km. Global time and date of event 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 09:19:22 / May 23, 2020 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.6 km (8 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00731994. Unique identifier: nn00731994.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 47 km S of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km S 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 2020-05-23 09:19:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 09:24:48 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 3.37 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 199 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 1.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144.15 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 nn00731994 Id of event.
Event Code 00731994 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00731994, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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