A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mina in Nevada. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00787105. Unique identifier: nn00787105. Exact location of event, longitude -118.0577 West, latitude 38.174 North, depth = 10.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/20 / 2020-12-01 23:32:56 / December 1, 2020 @ 11:32 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:56 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.2 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mammoth Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. 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: 24 km S of Mina, Nevada.
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