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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Tonopah in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1825S, -117.9607WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 65 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (40 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -117.9607 West, latitude 38.1825 North, depth = 7.58 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.58 km (5 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:25:42 / 3:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 11:25:42 / May 15, 2020 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us70009gji. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009gji.

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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 65 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9607° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km WNW 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 11:25:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 12:01:56 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 199 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 ,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 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us70009gji Id of event.
Event Code 70009gji An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009gji, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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