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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 45 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.165S, -117.7323WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 45 km WNW of Tonopah, Nevada (28 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -117.7323° West, latitude 38.165° North, depth = 9.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.3 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:30:54 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 14:30:54 / May 15, 2020 @ 2:30 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00725415. Id of event: nn00725415.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 WNW of Tonopah, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.7323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 14:30:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-15 14:37:11 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 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 121 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145.22 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 nn00725415 Id of event.
Event Code 00725415 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00725415, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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