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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Tonopah in Nevada

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Earthquake location 38.1385S, -117.9602WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -117.9602° West, latitude 38.1385° North, depth = 12.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.7 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 09:57:52 / May 24, 2020 @ 9:57 am. The temblor was reported at 01:57:52 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: nn00733035. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00733035.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km W of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9602° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1385° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.7 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 2020-05-24 09:57:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 10:03:18 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 4.39 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 284 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 54 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.019 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 44.45 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 nn00733035 Id of event.
Event Code 00733035 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00733035, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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