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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Mina in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1935S, -117.8623WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada (19 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00757297. Unique identifier: nn00757297. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.6 km (7 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:12:54 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.8623 West, latitude 38.1935 North, depth = 11.6 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 06:12:54 / July 6, 2020 @ 6:12 am.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km SE of Mina, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-06 06:12:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-06 06:19:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.64 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 312 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52.13 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 nn00757297 Id of event.
Event Code 00757297 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00757297, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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