Minor earthquake: M2.83 quake has struck near Walker in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Walker in CA. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:08:24 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.3400000333786 km (-1 miles). Exact location, longitude -119.57233428955° West, latitude 38.662334442139° North, depth = -1.3400000333786 km. Id of earthquake: nc75248111. Event ids that are associated: nc75248111, nn00905845. Global time and date of event 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 06:08:24 / October 12, 2025 @ 6:08 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Incline Village, Dayton, Carson City (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from South Lake Tahoe (c. 21 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Gardnerville Ranchos (c. 11 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Dayton (c. 9 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Incline Village (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 two and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km NNW of Walker, CA.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.57233428955° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.662334442139° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	-1.3400000333786 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km NNW of Walker, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-12 06:08:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-13 18:09:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	123	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2329	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	nc75248111	Id of event.
Event Code	75248111	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75248111,nn00905845,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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