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Light earthquake 4 mag, 33 km ENE of Yerington, Nevada


Earthquake location 39.0777S, -118.7905WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:40:16 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -118.7905 West, latitude 39.0777 North, depth = 0 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/16 / 2016-12-04 07:40:16 / December 4, 2016 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: nn00568373. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72732805, nn00568373.

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Indian Hills, Gardnerville Ranchos, Carson City. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 33 km ENE of Yerington, Nevada.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -118.7905° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ENE of Yerington, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-04 07:40:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-04 07:46:03 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 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 ,nc,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 92 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.362 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 55.67 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 nn00568373 Id of event.
Event Code 00568373 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72732805,nn00568373, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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