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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Truckee in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Truckee in California. Unique identifier: nc72488831. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72488831, nn00502518. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.2838364 West, latitude 39.4490013 North, depth = 8.52 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 01:36:06 / July 19, 2015 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:36:06 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.52 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pollock Pines, Gardnerville Ranchos, Alta Sierra (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 15 km NNW of Truckee, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.2838364° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4490013° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NNW of Truckee, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-19 01:36:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-19 01:41:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nc	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.08026	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	nc72488831	Id of event.
Event Code	72488831	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72488831,nn00502518,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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