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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00888280. Unique identifier: nn00888280. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 19:31:50 / December 4, 2024 @ 7:31 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -119.0425° West, 39.1583° North, depth 0 km. The temblor was detected at 19:31:50 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Gardnerville Ranchos, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop).

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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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: 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0425° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1583° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km NNE 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	2024-12-04 19:31:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 19:34:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.232	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3037 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85.95	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	nn00888280	Id of event.
Event Code	00888280	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888280,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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