Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Austin in Nevada

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 46 km E of Austin, Nevada (29 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.2 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nn00880126. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00880126. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:35:33 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -116.5329 West, latitude 39.52 North, depth = 0.2 km. Global time and date of event 29/06/24 / 2024-06-29 23:35:33 / June 29, 2024 @ 11:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 46 km E of Austin, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.5329° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.52° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km E of Austin, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-29 23:35:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-29 23:38:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	284	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.054	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3361 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103.25	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	nn00880126	Id of event.
Event Code	00880126	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00880126,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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