Minor earthquake 3.48 mag, 2 km ESE of Mesa Vista, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Mesa Vista in CA. All ids that are associated to the event: nc75104276. Unique identifier: nc75104276. Global time and date of event 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 02:39:55 / December 17, 2024 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:39:55 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.78649902344 West, latitude 38.79033279419 North, depth = -0.87999999523163 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.87999999523163 km (-1 miles).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Truckee (c. 16 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sparks, Reno, Pollock Pines (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 2 km ESE of Mesa Vista, CA.

CA Carson City Mesa Vista Pollock Pines Reno South Lake Tahoe Sparks Truckee United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.48 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.78649902344° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.79033279419° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-0.87999999523163 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Mesa Vista, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-17 02:39:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-17 02:44:44	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	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.955	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	187	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1726	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	nc75104276	Id of event.
Event Code	75104276	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75104276,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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