Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Reno in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Reno in Nevada. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00523705. Id of event: nn00523705. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.1 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 06:59:05 / December 23, 2015 @ 6:59 am. The temblor was detected at 22:59:05 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -119.7856 West, latitude 39.4284 North, depth = 8.1 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gardnerville Ranchos, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville. Earthquake epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 29 km (18 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).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km SSE of Reno, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7856° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4284° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km 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 06:59:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-23 09:05:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	129	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.022	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1229 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72.58	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	nn00523705	Id of event.
Event Code	00523705	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00523705,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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