Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.7 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 00:30:47 / December 11, 2024 @ 12:30 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00889115. Id of event: nn00889115. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:30:47 / 12:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -119.0905° West, 39.1188° North, depth 6.7 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was South Lake Tahoe, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, 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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0905° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1188° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 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 00:30:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-11 01:10:01	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	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.0313 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69.34	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	nn00889115	Id of event.
Event Code	00889115	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00889115,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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