Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake 3.46 mag, 13 km ENE of Truckee, California


Earthquake location 39.3644981S, -120.0311661WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (mg/mb) has striked on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Truckee in California. The temblor was reported at 22:06:43 / 10:06 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 0.04 km (0 miles). Global time of event 08/04/15 / 2015-04-08 05:06:43 / April 8, 2015 @ 5:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -120.0311661 West, latitude 39.3644981 North, depth 0.04 km, unique identifier, nc72428161.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pollock Pines, Fernley, Silver Springs.

Did you feel it?

Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded in: 13 km ENE of Truckee, California.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.0311661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3644981° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of Truckee, California Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-08 05:06:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-08 05:31:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 93 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.18 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 220 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, 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 0.2136 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 nc72428161 Id of event.
Event Code 72428161 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nn00489624,nc72428161, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply