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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Reno in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.4288S, -119.7886WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Reno in Nevada. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 06:46:07 / December 23, 2015 @ 6:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:46:07 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: nn00523696. Ids that are associated to the event: us100048zm, nn00523696. Exact location of event, longitude -119.7886 West, latitude 39.4288 North, depth = 9.6 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon, Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 11 km (7 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 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: 12 km S of Reno, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.7886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4288° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of Reno, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-23 06:46:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 07:40:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1395 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.39 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 reviewed 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 678 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 ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1457 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47.04 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 nn00523696 Id of event.
Event Code 00523696 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048zm,nn00523696, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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