Report An Earthquake

• Report a California earthquake.
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• Report in more detail on Nevada or historical earthquakes here:

You can help us characterize earthquakes in Nevada and around the world by filling in this form as best you can, even if you did not feel the earthquake. Your responses will help seismologists anticipate the effects of future earthquakes, and hopefully allow the public to become better prepared. Completing this form will take just a few minutes.

Your location when you felt the earthquake. Describe it as closely as you can by stating an address, cross streets, mileposts, or place names:

City: County:
State: Zip Code:
Country:

Phone (optional):

Mailing Address (optional):

When did you feel the earthquake?
Date: - Time of day:

Where were you when you felt the earthquake?

Outdoors	Indoors
In a car	In a boat

In a building (stories)?

Basement
Ground level
1	2	3
4	5	6-10
11-20	21-30	31-50
Bldg. has Stories

Another Location:

What were you doing when you felt the earthquake?

Sitting	Standing
Walking	Running
Laying Awake	Sleeping
Driving

Other than the above:

How many seconds did the event last?

Please choose all that apply from the following descriptions of how the earthquake felt:

Extremely weak	Weak
Wasn't sure that it was an earthquake	Immediately recognized as an earthquake
Vibration like a passing light truck	Vibration like a passing heavy truck at some distance
Vibration like a passing heavy truck closeby	Moderately strong
Strong	Extremely strong
Rolling motions	Sharp motions
Like something heavy hitting the building	Like something heavy falling inside
Most people around didn't notice it	Most people around felt it
Everyone felt it	Woke me up, but I'm a light sleeper
Awakened me	Awakened everyone around me
Not at all frightning	Some people were frightened
Most people were frightened	Everyone was frightened
A few people ran outdoors	Many people ran outdoors
Nearly everyone moved outdoors	Some people felt panic
General panic	No problem standing during the earthquake
A little uneasy moving during the earthquake	Difficult to stand
Noticed while driving	Made driving difficult
Dizziness	Nausea
Moved to a doorway	Ducked under furniture

Please describe what you felt:

Please choose all that apply from the following list of possible earthquake effects:

No effects seen	Doors swing very slowly
Doors swing slowly	Hanging objects swing slightly
Animals uneasy or disturbed	Hanging objects swing noticeably
Hanging objects swing considerably	Hanging objects swing violently
Rattling dishes	Rattling windows
Rattling of other objects	Creaking of walls
Building trembled throughout	Swimming pool disturbed
Swimming pool sloshes water	Broken dishes
Cracked windows	Overturned vases or other unstable objects
Knocked pictures against walls	Pictures swung out of place
Opened or closed doors or cabinets	Moved small objects
Small objects fall off shelves	Broke dishes
Moved furniture slightly	Moved moderately heavy furniture
Overturned furniture	Overturned heavy furniture
Spilled liquids from full containers	Trees or bushes shaken slightly
Trees or bushes shaken moderately	Trees or bushes shaken strongly
Branches broken off trees	Trees broken at trunks
Rang small church bells	Rang large church bells
Cracked plaster	Some plaster falls
Considerable fall of plaster	Fine cracks in chimneys, brickwork
Considerable cracks in chimneys, brickwork	Chimneys fall
Cracks in exterior of building	Some bricks, stones dislodged from building
Fall of walls	Rocks roll down hill
Rockfalls on steep slopes	Landslides
Cracks in the ground	Water, sand, or mud ejected from the ground
Water did not spill from the aquarium	Water spilled from the aquarium
Water did not slosh out of the toilet	Water sloshed out of the toilet
Fruit fell from trees	Fruit did not fall from trees
Many items tipped over and off shelves	Cupboard or refrigerator thrown open
Shelves, cupboards, refrigerators emptied	Objects thrown into the air
Sand ejected from the ground	Cracked or slumped ground

Other Damage (please describe):

Other effects (please describe):

Thank you for completing this report. Your response will be read by scientists and engineers at the Seismological Laboratory at the Univeristy of Nevada, Reno; at Humboldt State University; at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado; and at other institutions performing earthquake analyses.

The information you provide here and in other surveys of earthquake effects we intend to use only for scientific studies in statistically condensed form. If you choose to provide your name, home address, phone number, email address, or other personal information, we will attempt to hold them in confidence and use them only in the unlikely event we need to contact you for additional information. However, we cannot guarantee in any way that we might not at some future date be compelled to release your report in response to court order or other legal action.

If you are unable to submit your report electronically, please print this page, fill in the report, and mail to: