Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Wednesday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:25:54 / 7:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.047 West, latitude 39.1641 North, depth = 3.4 km. Global time and date of event 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 07:25:54 / December 11, 2024 @ 7:25 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00889181. Unique identifier: nn00889181. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Gardnerville Ranchos, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.047° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1641° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.4 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	2024-12-11 07:25:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-11 18:13:20	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	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	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.234	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1253 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74.53	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	nn00889181	Id of event.
Event Code	00889181	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00889181,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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