Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Walker in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Walker in CA. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 11:43:56 / August 7, 2024 @ 11:43 am. The temblor was reported at 11:43:56 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -2.01 km (-1 miles). Exact location of event, depth -2.01 km, -119.51° West, 38.62° North. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00882039, nc75045032, us6000nilr. Unique identifier: nc75045032.

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dayton, Carson City, Indian Hills.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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 of Walker, CA.

CA Carson City Dayton Gardnerville Ranchos Indian Hills Johnson Lane South Lake Tahoe United States Walker

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.51° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.62° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-2.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km of Walker, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-07 11:43:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 16:12:51	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	2.2	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	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	,nn,nc,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2756	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	nc75045032	Id of event.
Event Code	75045032	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00882039,nc75045032,us6000nilr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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