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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag strikes near Walker in CA

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Walker in CA. Exact location of event, longitude -119.54116821289 West, latitude 38.513168334961 North, depth = -1.7699999809265 km. Id of earthquake: nc75067836. Event ids that are associated: nc75067836. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/24 / 2024-09-28 15:32:04 / September 28, 2024 @ 3:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:32:04 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -1.7699999809265 km (-1 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dayton, Carson City, Indian Hills. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Gardnerville (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 5 km W of Walker, CA.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.68 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.54116821289° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.513168334961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.7699999809265 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km W 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	2024-09-28 15:32:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-28 15:38:55	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	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.933	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	209	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1821	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	109	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	nc75067836	Id of event.
Event Code	75067836	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75067836,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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