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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.6738S, -118.5453WA 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.5453° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.6738° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km NNE 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 2024-08-25 05:13:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-25 05:17:02 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 271 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3773 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84.26 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 nn00882964 Id of event.
Event Code 00882964 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00882964, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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