{"id":295294,"date":"2026-05-01T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:26:33","slug":"5-2-earthquake-felt-in-reno-tahoe-and-as-far-west-as-sacramento-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295294\/","title":{"rendered":"5.2 earthquake felt in Reno, Tahoe and as far west as Sacramento \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude was widely felt in the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.<\/p>\n<p>The quake, at 1:17 a.m. May 1, was centered near Lahontan Reservoir, about 40 miles east of Carson City. It was preceded by a 4.3 earthquake\u00a0 in the same area about a minute earlier and followed by several around 2.5 magnitude, the USGS said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,600 people responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/nn00916980\/dyfi\/intensity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">USGS Did You Feel It<\/a> survey, including from as far west as Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/13\/magnitude-5-7-quake-strikes-nevada-is-felt-in-bay-area\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A quake of 5.7 magnitude<\/a> was centered in the Lahontan area on April 13, and dozens of quakes of magnitude 2 and 3 have been recorded there since.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, the largest earthquakes in Nevada were another 5.7, in December 2024 about 10 miles south of Friday\u2019s epicenter, and a 6.5 in May 2020 near Tonopah, according to the USGS database. The 6.5 was the state\u2019s biggest quake in 66 years.<\/p>\n<p>An early version of this article incorrectly said the quake happened at 8:17 a.m. That was in Coordinated Universal Time; in local time (Pacific Daylight), it happened at 1:17 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude was widely felt in the Reno and Lake Tahoe areas Friday morning, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,8,2949,181,2581,100,121,123,122,645],"class_list":["post-295294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-earthquake","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295294","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=295294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}