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Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Dayton in Nevada

Posted by admin on December 4, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.2386S, -119.5186WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Dayton in Nevada. Unique identifier: ew1764864420. Ids that are associated to the event: ew1764864420. Exact location of event, longitude -119.5186 West, latitude 39.2386 North, depth = 8 km. Global time and date of event 04/12/25 / 2025-12-04 16:06:13 / December 4, 2025 @ 4:06 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:06:13 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pollock Pines, Fallon, Cold Springs. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Truckee (c. 16 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Spanish Springs (c. 15 100 pop).

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 sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 6 km E of Dayton, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -119.5186° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2386° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km E of Dayton, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-04 16:06:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-04 16:10:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 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 536 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ew The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ew, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 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 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mw The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ew1764864420 Id of event.
Event Code 1764864420 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ew1764864420, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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