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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Austin in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.5255S, -116.5448WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 45 km E of Austin, Nevada (28 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/09/19 / 2019-09-10 04:25:56 / September 10, 2019 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.8 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00703188. Id of event: nn00703188. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.5448 West, latitude 39.5255 North, depth = 14.8 km. The temblor was reported at 20:25:56 / 8:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 45 km E of Austin, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.5448° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5255° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km E 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 2019-09-10 04:25:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-10 04:36:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.31 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 312 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.85 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67.65 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 nn00703188 Id of event.
Event Code 00703188 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00703188, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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