Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Markleeville in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Markleeville in California on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.2 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/06/20 / 2020-06-26 08:11:22 / June 26, 2020 @ 8:11 am. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:11:22 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.733 West, latitude 38.7165 North, depth = 8.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00753856. Unique identifier: nn00753856.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Incline Village (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pollock Pines, Incline Village, Dayton (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km ENE of Markleeville, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.733° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7165° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km ENE of Markleeville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-26 08:11:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-26 08:14:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	121	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.81	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189.91	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	nn00753856	Id of event.
Event Code	00753856	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00753856,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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