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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Hawthorne in Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1538S, -118.034WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada (41 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00735859. Unique identifier: nn00735859. Exact location of earthquake, -118.034° West, 38.1538° North, depth 11.5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/20 / 2020-05-27 00:57:02 / May 27, 2020 @ 12:57 am. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:57:02 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km SE of Hawthorne, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2020-05-27 00:57:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-27 01:06:50 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 3.56 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 211 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53.64 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 nn00735859 Id of event.
Event Code 00735859 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00735859, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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