Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Truckee in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Truckee in CA. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.38 km (4 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:32:31 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73352670, nn00718774. Id of event: nc73352670. Exact location of event, longitude -120.2448349 West, latitude 39.4768333 North, depth = 6.38 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/03/20 / 2020-03-11 04:32:31 / March 11, 2020 @ 4:32 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Grass Valley, Gardnerville, Johnson Lane (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 17 km NNW of Truckee, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Carson City Gardnerville Grass Valley Johnson Lane Reno South Lake Tahoe Sparks Sun Valley Truckee United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.2448349° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4768333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NNW of Truckee, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-11 04:32:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-11 04:38:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	123	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	0.2551	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	nc73352670	Id of event.
Event Code	73352670	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73352670,nn00718774,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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