Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. The temblor was picked up at 23:14:24 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 23:14:24 / December 9, 2024 @ 11:14 pm. Unique identifier: nn00889283. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00889283. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.057 West, latitude 39.1625 North, depth = 11.5 km.

Close 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 (45 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Reno, Sparks, Gardnerville Ranchos.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.057° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 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 23:14:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-11 22:51:38	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	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	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1601 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	255.75	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	nn00889283	Id of event.
Event Code	00889283	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00889283,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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