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Minor earthquake 2.89 mag, 9 km N of Truckee, California


Earthquake location 39.4160004S, -120.168335WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Truckee in California. Exact location of event, depth 3.23 km, -120.168335° West, 39.4160004° North. Event id: nc72713711. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72713711, nn00563764. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.23 km (2 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:38:34 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 04:38:34 / October 17, 2016 @ 4:38 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gardnerville Ranchos, Gardnerville, Johnson Lane (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 0 and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km N of Truckee, California.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -120.168335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.4160004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N 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 2016-10-17 04:38:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-17 04:41:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 128 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 nc72713711 Id of event.
Event Code 72713711 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,nc72713711,nn00563764, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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