A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -113.9951 West, latitude 36.5037 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us7000pw37. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pw37. Global time and date of event 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 12:38:50 / April 30, 2025 @ 12:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:38:50 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Clara, Saint George, Moapa Valley. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 six 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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 SSE of Bunkerville, Nevada.
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