Minor earthquake 3.02 mag, 6 km NW of Walker, CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Walker in CA. Global time and date of event 02/10/24 / 2024-10-02 19:33:33 / October 2, 2024 @ 7:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:33:33 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth -1.8500000238419 km, -119.53866577148° West, 38.54666519165° North. The epicenter was at a depth of -1.8500000238419 km (-1 miles). Event id: nc75069561. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc75069561, nn00885486.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dayton, Carson City, Indian Hills. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Johnson Lane (c. 6 500 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 6 km NW 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	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.53866577148° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.54666519165° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.8500000238419 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NW 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	2024-10-02 19:33:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-02 19:38:05	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		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	140	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,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2119	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	nc75069561	Id of event.
Event Code	75069561	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75069561,nn00885486,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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