Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Coleville in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Coleville in California on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -119.353° West, 38.6107° North, depth 2.1 km. The temblor was detected at 01:10:02 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 01:10:02 / December 2, 2020 @ 1:10 am. Unique identifier: nn00787229. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00787229. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dayton, Carson City, South Lake Tahoe (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km ENE of Coleville, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.353° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6107° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ENE of Coleville, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-02 01:10:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-02 01:13:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	2.97	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	0.374	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	258.73	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	nn00787229	Id of event.
Event Code	00787229	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00787229,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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