Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Reno in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Reno in Nevada. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:36:28 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00523682. Event ids that are associated: nn00523682. Global time and date of event 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 06:36:28 / December 23, 2015 @ 6:36 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.1 km (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -119.8122° West, 39.4665° North, depth 0.1 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km S of Reno, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.8122° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4665° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km 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 06:36:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-23 06:45:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	19	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	145	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.071	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	49.4	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	nn00523682	Id of event.
Event Code	00523682	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00523682,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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