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Light earthquake 4 mag, 67 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1557S, -118.0095WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 67 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (42 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/20 / 2020-05-28 08:29:46 / May 28, 2020 @ 8:29 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -118.0095° West, 38.1557° North, depth 10 km. Id of earthquake: nn00737089. Event ids that are associated: nn00737089. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:29:46 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0095° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2020-05-28 08:29:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-28 08:35:08 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 4.07 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 246 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42.11 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 nn00737089 Id of event.
Event Code 00737089 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00737089, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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