Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Walker in California

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Walker in California on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -119.473° West, 38.4057° North, depth 1.4 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:26:27 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 00:26:27 / June 23, 2020 @ 12:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.4 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: nn00751977. Event ids that are associated: nn00751977.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Gardnerville (c. 5 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Indian Hills (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Indian Hills, Johnson Lane, South Lake Tahoe (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km S of Walker, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4057° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km S of Walker, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-23 00:26:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-23 00:31:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	168	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.72	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	334.89	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	nn00751977	Id of event.
Event Code	00751977	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00751977,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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