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Light earthquake 4 mag, 36 km SSE of Mina, Nevada


Earthquake location 38.1047S, -117.9123WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 36 km SSE of Mina, Nevada (22 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 17:10:35 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -117.9123° West, 38.1047° North, depth 13.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.7 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: nn00762457. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00762457. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/20 / 2020-07-23 17:10:35 / July 23, 2020 @ 5:10 pm.

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

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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. 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: 36 km SSE of Mina, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.9123° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1047° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km SSE of Mina, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-23 17:10:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-23 17:17:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 246 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43.94 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 nn00762457 Id of event.
Event Code 00762457 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00762457, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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