Minor earthquake, 2.97 mag was detected near Markleeville in CA

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Markleeville in CA. Exact location of event, depth -1.13 km, -119.7146683° West, 38.7428322° North. Id of earthquake: nc73140670. Event ids that are associated: nn00677468, nc73140670. The epicenter was at a depth of -1.13 km (-1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/19 / 2019-02-11 04:50:12 / February 11, 2019 @ 4:50 am. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:50:12 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Truckee, Pollock Pines, Incline Village. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Truckee (c. 16 200 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km NE of Markleeville, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.97 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.7146683° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7428322° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NE 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	2019-02-11 04:50:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-11 04:56:09	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	136	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	,nn,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3219	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	nc73140670	Id of event.
Event Code	73140670	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00677468,nc73140670,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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