SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A preliminary magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit near Yerington, Nevada. It has fluctuated between M5.5 to 5.8.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck around 3:10 p.m. It was centered about 50 miles east of Carson City, Nevada.
People reported feeling it in Reno, Roseville and Sacramento so far. There are no immediate reports of damage.
A map of where the earthquake was likely felt can be found HERE.
People might have noticed the shaking was different from the Nevada quake than last week's off the North Coast.
"The earthquake last week was further away. The predominant motion that you're going to feel being so far away from that magnitude 7 earthquake last week is the slow, long period waves. They can travel a really long way. The more rapid shaking, the back and forth, higher frequency shaking that we call it attenuates. It dies down faster," said Dr. Angie Lux, with UC Berkeley's Earthquake Early Warning Project.
It comes about a week after California had its own notable earthquake that rocked the area with an M7. Lux said that area tends to see larger earthquakes than what might happen in Nevada.
"In Nevada, western Nevada, we see an extensional zone, so that area is actually kind of being stretched apart in the crust, and so that's a little bit of a different tectonic environment," she said. "We don't expect to see such large earthquakes in that area. Typically, magnitude 6 or so is kind of what we would expect for a larger earthquake in Nevada."
For California, Lux said the recent quake would be considered a moderate one.
So far, there have been several aftershocks. According to USGS, there is a 14% chance one or more aftershocks are larger than magnitude 5 within the next week.
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