Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. Unique identifier: nn00888364. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00888364. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 19:31:28 / December 5, 2024 @ 7:31 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:28 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.9 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.9 km, -119.0354° West, 39.1611° North.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Gardnerville Ranchos, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, 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 in the same area. Every 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0354° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1611° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 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	2024-12-05 19:31:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 19:33:51	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.237	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1526 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86.21	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	nn00888364	Id of event.
Event Code	00888364	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888364,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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