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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Reno in Nevada


Earthquake location 39.3985S, -119.8423WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Reno in Nevada on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:49:44 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/06/19 / 2019-06-07 04:49:44 / June 7, 2019 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -119.8423° West, 39.3985° North, depth 15.8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00687042. Id of event: nn00687042.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gardnerville Ranchos, Fernley, South Lake Tahoe. Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km S of Reno, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.8423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S 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 2019-06-07 04:49:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-07 04:54:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.974 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 214 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.174 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64.38 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 nn00687042 Id of event.
Event Code 00687042 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00687042, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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