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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1075S, -118.1567WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Hawthorne in Nevada. Global time and date of event 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:17:25 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70009gj9. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00725282, us70009gj9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.1567 West, latitude 38.1075 North, depth = 7.99 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:17:25 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.99 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Mammoth Lakes (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mammoth Lakes.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days ninety-seven 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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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: 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.1567° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SE 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 2020-05-15 11:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 12:08:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 32 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.19 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 reviewed 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 339 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us70009gj9 Id of event.
Event Code 70009gj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725282,us70009gj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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