Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Yerington in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Yerington in Nevada. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.4 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:46:57 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 16:46:57 / December 24, 2024 @ 4:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00890496. Unique identifier: nn00890496. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.0405 West, latitude 39.1392 North, depth = 10.4 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Incline Village, Sun Valley, Spanish Springs (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.0405° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1392° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.4 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	2024-12-24 16:46:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-24 17:01:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	automatic	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	168	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3572 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55.55	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	nn00890496	Id of event.
Event Code	00890496	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00890496,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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