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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Silver Springs in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 9, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.225S, -119.0072WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Silver Springs in Nevada. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 23:08:30 / December 9, 2024 @ 11:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:08:30 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 2.917 km, -119.0072° West, 39.225° North. Id of earthquake: us7000nxf1. Event ids that are associated: ew1733785720, nn00888563, us7000nxf1. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.917 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Truckee, Cold Springs, South Lake Tahoe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Truckee (c. 16 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.917 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-09 23:08:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 23:24:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 483 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.87 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed 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 798 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew,nn,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nxf1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1733785720,nn00888563,us7000nxf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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