Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Virginia City in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Virginia City in Nevada. Event id: nn00618549. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00618549. Exact location of earthquake, -119.7487° West, 39.39° North, depth 7.8 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/18 / 2018-01-17 03:24:53 / January 17, 2018 @ 3:24 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:24:53 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NW of Virginia City, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7487° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.39° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NW of Virginia City, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-17 03:24:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-17 03:35:47	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	37	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	131	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	0.023	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	35.13	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	nn00618549	Id of event.
Event Code	00618549	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00618549,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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