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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1723S, -118.0958WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (38 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.1 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: nn00727712, us70009jbc. Unique identifier: nn00727712. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:08 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.0958 West, latitude 38.1723 North, depth = 9.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/20 / 2020-05-18 02:19:08 / May 18, 2020 @ 2:19 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 61 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.0958° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1723° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.1 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 2020-05-18 02:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-18 02:48:31 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 3.92 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 284 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41.23 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 nn00727712 Id of event.
Event Code 00727712 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00727712,us70009jbc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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