Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag strikes near Truckee in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Truckee in California. Exact location, longitude -120.4605026° West, latitude 39.1800003° North, depth = -0.26 km. The temblor was reported at 03:33:23 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.26 km (-0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 10:33:23 / May 31, 2016 @ 10:33 am. Event id: nc72643651. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72643651, nn00546075.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Dorado Hills, Granite Bay, Dayton (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from El Dorado Hills (c. 42 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.4605026° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1800003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km WSW 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	2016-05-31 10:33:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-31 10:38:02	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	131	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1952	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72643651	Id of event.
Event Code	72643651	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72643651,nn00546075,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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