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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Tahoe Vista in California

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tahoe Vista in California. The temblor was detected at 16:53:46 / 4:53 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.3 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: nn00665199. Unique identifier: nn00665199. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/18 / 2018-11-12 00:53:46 / November 12, 2018 @ 12:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -120.0892 West, latitude 39.2283 North, depth = 11.3 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Pollock Pines, Spanish Springs.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Tahoe Vista, California. 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	-120.0892° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2283° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WSW of Tahoe Vista, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-12 00:53:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-12 00:58:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	131	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	0.08	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96.4	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	nn00665199	Id of event.
Event Code	00665199	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00665199,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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