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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Tonopah in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1051S, -117.8866WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 57 km W of Tonopah, Nevada (35 miles). Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -117.8866° West, 38.1051° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:10:26 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 12:10:26 / May 15, 2020 @ 12:10 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725323. Id of event: nn00725323.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 57 km W of Tonopah, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.8866° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km W of Tonopah, 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 12:10:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 12:14:02 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 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 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 178 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3975 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157.79 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 nn00725323 Id of event.
Event Code 00725323 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725323, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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