Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Fernley in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Fernley in Nevada on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 03:10:02 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -119.1183° West, latitude 39.6602° North, depth = 17 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00512464. Id of event: nn00512464. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 10:10:02 / September 27, 2015 @ 10:10 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cold Springs, Dayton, Lemmon Valley (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ENE of Fernley, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1183° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.6602° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km ENE of Fernley, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-27 10:10:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-27 10:14:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	129	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123.72	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	nn00512464	Id of event.
Event Code	00512464	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00512464,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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