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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1495S, -118.064WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 64 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (40 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -118.064° West, 38.1495° North, depth 7.8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.8 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 09:47:49 / May 20, 2020 @ 9:47 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:47:49 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00729220. Event ids that are associated: nn00729220.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.064° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2020-05-20 09:47:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 09:51:07 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 158 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138.28 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 nn00729220 Id of event.
Event Code 00729220 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00729220, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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