Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Truckee in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Truckee in California. Exact location, longitude -120.1735° West, latitude 39.253° North, depth = 0 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/17 / 2017-05-02 21:12:55 / May 2, 2017 @ 9:12 pm. Id of earthquake: nc72796075. Event ids that are associated: nc72796075. The temblor was detected at 13:12:55 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 0 km (0 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alta Sierra, Grass Valley, Pollock Pines. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 8 km S of Truckee, California.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-120.1735° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.253° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km S 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	2017-05-02 21:12:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-03 00:26:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	reviewed	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	129	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	0	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.871	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	4.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	355	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mh	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	sonic boom	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc72796075	Id of event.
Event Code	72796075	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72796075,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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