{"id":295278,"date":"2026-05-01T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:13:10","slug":"5-2-magnitude-earthquake-in-nevada-reportedly-felt-as-far-as-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295278\/","title":{"rendered":"5.2 magnitude earthquake in Nevada reportedly felt as far as Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning earthquake in Nevada on Friday was felt as far west as the Sacramento Valley.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck around 1:17 a.m. about 50 miles east of Carson City. Shaking was reported across the Reno, Carson City and South Lake Tahoe areas.<\/p>\n<p>People also reported feeling shaking along the Sierra Nevada foothills and into the valley, including in Roseville and Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>No damage has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nevada-quake.png#.png\" alt=\"nevada-quake.png \" height=\"444\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Map of Friday morning&#8217;s earthquake in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>                USGS<\/p>\n<p>The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2. A magnitude 4.3 foreshock appears to have struck about two minutes before the main quake. Several aftershocks have followed, none larger than magnitude 2.7.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada also saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/earthquake-nevada-felt-across-northern-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a magnitude 5.7 earthquake<\/a> centered in the same general area on April 13. Like Friday&#8217;s quake, that earthquake was felt in the Sacramento area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early morning earthquake in Nevada on Friday was felt as far west as the Sacramento Valley. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2949,3482,46599,121,123,122,5446],"class_list":["post-295278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-earthquake","tag-nevada","tag-reno","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-south-lake-tahoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}