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


Earthquake location 39.1573S, -119.0344WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Yerington in Nevada on Friday. Unique identifier: nn00889423. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nycj, nn00889423. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.6 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:54:01 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -119.0344° West, latitude 39.1573° North, depth = 4.6 km. Global time and date of event 13/12/24 / 2024-12-13 04:54:01 / December 13, 2024 @ 4:54 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Incline Village, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 -119.0344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.6 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 04:54:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-13 05:56:41 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 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.135 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 nn The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,nn, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1047 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66.66 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 nn00889423 Id of event.
Event Code 00889423 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nycj,nn00889423, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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