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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada


Earthquake location 39.159S, -119.0202WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/24 / 2024-12-13 04:45:55 / December 13, 2024 @ 4:45 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nycf. Id of event: us7000nycf. Exact location, longitude -119.0202° West, latitude 39.159° North, depth = 8.683 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.683 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:45:55 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Incline Village, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.0202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.683 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 2024-12-13 04:45:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-13 04:59:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.455 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 178 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us7000nycf Id of event.
Event Code 7000nycf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nycf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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