Minor earthquake 2.86 mag, 16 km E of Markleeville, CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Markleeville in CA. Event id: nc72995506. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nc72995506, nn00629190. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:08 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -119.6113358 West, latitude 38.7150002 North, depth = -1.69 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.69 km (-1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/18 / 2018-04-05 05:20:08 / April 5, 2018 @ 5:20 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Incline Village, Dayton, Carson City. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Incline Village (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km E of Markleeville, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Carson City Dayton Gardnerville Ranchos Incline Village Markleeville South Lake Tahoe United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6113358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7150002° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km E of Markleeville, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-05 05:20:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-04-05 05:24:01	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	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	126	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	107	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	nc72995506	Id of event.
Event Code	72995506	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc72995506,nn00629190,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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