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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Sandy Valley in Nevada

Posted by admin on July 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8993S, -115.7597WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Sandy Valley in Nevada. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 15:17:37 / July 5, 2018 @ 3:17 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00642964. Id of event: nn00642964. The temblor was reported at 07:17:37 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.7597 West, latitude 35.8993 North, depth = 6.7 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boulder City, Henderson, Sunrise Manor. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Las Vegas (c. 583 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Henderson (c. 257 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Paradise (c. 223 200 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from North Las Vegas (c. 217 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sunrise Manor (c. 189 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Spring Valley (c. 178 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Enterprise (c. 108 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km NW of Sandy Valley, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.7597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NW of Sandy Valley, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-05 15:17:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-05 15:28:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.32 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 314 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.301 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73.65 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 nn00642964 Id of event.
Event Code 00642964 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00642964, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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