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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 59 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada

Posted by admin on June 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.1834S, -117.8905WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 59 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (37 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:58:41 / 6:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 02:58:41 / May 16, 2020 @ 2:58 am. Unique identifier: us70009hmy. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725950, us70009hmy. Exact location of event, longitude -117.8905 West, latitude 38.1834 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and ninety-three, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 59 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km WNW 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 2020-05-16 02:58:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-05 15:46:43 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 reviewed 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 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70009hmy Id of event.
Event Code 70009hmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725950,us70009hmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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