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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Yerington in Nevada

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00888275. Id of event: nn00888275. Global time and date of event 04/12/24 / 2024-12-04 18:46:54 / December 4, 2024 @ 6:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:46:54 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.4 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.0387° West, latitude 39.1554° North, depth = 10.4 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Sun Valley (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0387° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1554° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.4 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 18:46:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-04 18:49:03	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	222	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.231	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1685 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85.75	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	nn00888275	Id of event.
Event Code	00888275	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888275,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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