Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.7 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -119.0505° West, 39.1493° North, depth 11.7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00888707. Id of event: nn00888707. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 01:52:59 / December 10, 2024 @ 1:52 am. The temblor was detected at 01:52:59 / 1:52 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Incline Village, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0505° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1493° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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	2024-12-10 01:52:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-10 03:00:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	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	158	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1943 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71.66	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	nn00888707	Id of event.
Event Code	00888707	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888707,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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