Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00615938. Id of event: nn00615938. Global time and date of event 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 00:00:02 / December 20, 2017 @ 12:00 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.8 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -118.8098 West, latitude 39.0412 North, depth = 7.8 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:00:02 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Johnson Lane, Fernley, Dayton.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 31 km ENE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.8098° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0412° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km 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	2017-12-20 00:00:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-20 00:17:24	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	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	138	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.34	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1953 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57.45	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	nn00615938	Id of event.
Event Code	00615938	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00615938,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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