Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00889584. Unique identifier: nn00889584. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.3 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 18:14:13 / December 14, 2024 @ 6:14 pm. Exact location, longitude -119.0547° West, latitude 39.154° North, depth = 9.3 km. The temblor was detected at 18:14:13 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Incline Village, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km NNE of Yerington, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0547° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.154° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 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	2024-12-14 18:14:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-14 18:40:23	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	3.4	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	189	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1581 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46.38	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	nn00889584	Id of event.
Event Code	00889584	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00889584,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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