{"id":266583,"date":"2026-04-14T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:22:13","slug":"magnitude-5-5-nevada-earthquake-felt-in-parts-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266583\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.5 Nevada earthquake felt in parts of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000sptw\/region-info\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">magnitude 5.5 earthquake<\/a> struck western Nevada on Monday evening, shaking communities across the region and sending tremors into parts of Northern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>The quake hit at 6:29 p.m. about 12 miles east-southeast of Silver Springs, Nev., at a depth of about 6 miles, the USGS reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shaking was felt across much of western Nevada, including Reno, as well as in parts of Northern California, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/news\/2026\/04\/13\/did-you-feel-it-5-4-earthquake-hits-east-of-reno\/89600354007\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">regional media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the USGS shows the earthquake reached a maximum intensity of VII on the Modified Mercalli scale, a level capable of causing very strong shaking. The agency assigned the event a \u201cgreen\u201d alert on its <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/nn00914068\/pager\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">PAGER system<\/a>, indicating a low likelihood of significant casualties or economic losses.<\/p>\n<p>A series of smaller aftershocks followed the main quake, with magnitudes ranging roughly between 2.6 and 3.7, according to preliminary measurements from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seismo.unr.edu\/Earthquake\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Nevada Seismological Laboratory<\/a> at the University of Nevada, Reno.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday night, there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries based on publicly available information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck western Nevada on Monday evening, shaking communities across the region and sending tremors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[184,7,9,8,3934,28457,2013],"class_list":{"0":"post-266583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-earthquakes","13":"tag-tahoe","14":"tag-us-and-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}