Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Sparks in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Sparks in Nevada. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.6 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.6 km, -119.6025° West, 39.4695° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:31:01 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 19:31:01 / May 15, 2018 @ 7:31 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: nn00635265. Event ids that are associated: nn00635265.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fallon, South Lake Tahoe, Gardnerville Ranchos. Close 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km ESE of Sparks, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.6025° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4695° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km ESE of Sparks, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-05-15 19:31:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-15 19:32:24	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	129	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.082	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60.81	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	nn00635265	Id of event.
Event Code	00635265	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00635265,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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