Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00888592. Unique identifier: nn00888592. The temblor was detected at 23:29:48 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.9 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.064 West, latitude 39.1446 North, depth = 15.9 km. Global time and date of event 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 23:29:48 / December 9, 2024 @ 11:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Spanish Springs, Reno, Sparks. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop).

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

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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: 19 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.064° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1446° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 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	2024-12-09 23:29:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-09 23:32:10	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	138	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.21	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2506 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150.78	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	nn00888592	Id of event.
Event Code	00888592	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00888592,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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