Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Indian Hills in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indian Hills in Nevada. Event id: nn00712041. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00712041. Global time and date of event 01/12/19 / 2019-12-01 02:11:06 / December 1, 2019 @ 2:11 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.7297 West, latitude 39.1095 North, depth = 9.4 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:11:06 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.4 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fernley, Cold Springs, Spanish Springs (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, 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.

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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. 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: 5 km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7297° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1095° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ENE of Indian Hills, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-12-01 02:11:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-01 02:14:36	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	121	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.107	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49.35	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	nn00712041	Id of event.
Event Code	00712041	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00712041,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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