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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Kings Beach in CA

Posted by admin on February 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.3419991S, -120.0216675WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kings Beach in CA. Unique identifier: nc72973441. Ids that are associated to the event: nc72973441. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.56 km (-0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.0216675 West, latitude 39.3419991 North, depth = -0.56 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:59:10 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 20:59:10 / February 21, 2018 @ 8:59 pm.

Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fernley, Silver Springs, Gardnerville Ranchos.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km N of Kings Beach, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0216675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3419991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth -0.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Kings Beach, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-21 20:59:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-21 21:05:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 124 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 nc72973441 Id of event.
Event Code 72973441 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72973441, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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