Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Smith in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Smith in Nevada. Id of earthquake: nn00728899. Event ids that are associated: nn00728899. Global time and date of event 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 01:44:54 / May 20, 2020 @ 1:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 20.3 km, -119.1265° West, 38.785° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:44:54 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was South Lake Tahoe, Silver Springs, Carson City.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 17 km E of Smith, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.1265° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.785° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km E of Smith, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-20 01:44:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-20 01:49:12	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	129	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.683	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157.38	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	nn00728899	Id of event.
Event Code	00728899	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00728899,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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