Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Reno in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Reno in Nevada. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.7858 West, latitude 39.4358 North, depth = 11.8 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:45:48 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.8 km (7 miles). Unique identifier: nn00523685. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00523685. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 06:45:48 / December 23, 2015 @ 6:45 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SSE of Reno, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7858° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4358° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSE of Reno, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-23 06:45:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-23 07:02:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	375	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.06	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	373	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.043	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46.24	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	nn00523685	Id of event.
Event Code	00523685	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00523685,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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