Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Exact location, longitude -118.7648° West, latitude 38.2737° North, depth = 10.1 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/24 / 2024-07-06 11:14:53 / July 6, 2024 @ 11:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 11:14:53 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ew1720264500, nn00880450. Id of event: nn00880450.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km SSW of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7648° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2737° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km SSW 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	2024-07-06 11:14:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-06 11:19:05	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	234	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	,ew,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.184	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.453 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93.29	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	nn00880450	Id of event.
Event Code	00880450	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ew1720264500,nn00880450,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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