Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (41 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.0497 West, latitude 38.1337 North, depth = 6.6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.6 km (4 miles). Unique identifier: nn00734320. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00734320. The temblor was detected at 07:34:53 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/05/20 / 2020-05-25 15:34:53 / May 25, 2020 @ 3:34 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.0497° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.1337° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km SE 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	2020-05-25 15:34:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-25 15:39:08	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	3.47	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	168	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.017	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43.48	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	nn00734320	Id of event.
Event Code	00734320	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00734320,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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