A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.4 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/24 / 2024-12-15 02:23:53 / December 15, 2024 @ 2:23 am. Exact location of event, longitude -118.9828 West, latitude 39.0798 North, depth = 8.4 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:23:53 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00889608. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nyyn, nn00889608.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Indian Hills, Gardnerville Ranchos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km ENE of Yerington, Nevada.
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