A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada. Global time and date of event 05/05/16 / 2016-05-05 13:49:30 / May 5, 2016 @ 1:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 11.1 km, -113.9888° West, 36.4782° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005e0j, nn00542944. Id of event: nn00542944. The temblor was detected at 06:49:30 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Ivins, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km S of Bunkerville, Nevada.
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