Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 00:18:14 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00888643. Id of event: nn00888643. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 00:18:14 / December 10, 2024 @ 12:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.4 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 9.4 km, -119.0322° West, 39.1688° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Spanish Springs, Reno, Sparks (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 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), 52 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0322° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1688° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 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 00:18:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-10 03:36:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	139	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.245	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1689 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73.79	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	nn00888643	Id of event.
Event Code	00888643	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888643,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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