A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/24 / 2024-08-25 05:13:44 / August 25, 2024 @ 5:13 am. Event id: nn00882964. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00882964. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.9 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:13:44 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -118.5453° West, latitude 38.6738° North, depth = 6.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon. Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada.
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