A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada. Exact location of earthquake, -114.0614° West, 36.4826° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10005e0j. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005e0j. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:49:32 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/16 / 2016-05-05 13:49:32 / May 5, 2016 @ 1:49 pm.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ivins, Saint George, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 32 km S of Bunkerville, Nevada.
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