Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Truckee in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Truckee in CA. Event id: nc73502910. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc73502910. The epicenter was at a depth of -1.76 km (-1 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/20 / 2020-12-26 05:54:55 / December 26, 2020 @ 5:54 am. Exact location, longitude -120.1661682° West, latitude 39.2669983° North, depth = -1.76 km. The temblor was detected at 05:54:55 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pollock Pines, Spanish Springs, Gardnerville Ranchos. Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSE of Truckee, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Carson City Gardnerville Ranchos Pollock Pines Reno South Lake Tahoe Spanish Springs Sparks Sun Valley Truckee United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.1661682° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2669983° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE 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	2020-12-26 05:54:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-26 06:01:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	130	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1404	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	nc73502910	Id of event.
Event Code	73502910	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc73502910,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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