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


Earthquake location 39.7933S, -117.4837WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada (30 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/19 / 2019-04-28 21:56:49 / April 28, 2019 @ 9:56 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -117.4837° West, latitude 39.7933° North, depth = 17.7 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:56:49 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 17.7 km (11 miles). Event id: nn00683467. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00683467.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km NW of Austin, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.4837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.7933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NW 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 2019-04-28 21:56:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 22:01:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 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 3.968 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.693 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121.68 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 nn00683467 Id of event.
Event Code 00683467 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00683467, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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