Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Bunkerville in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -114.0653° West, latitude 36.4922° North, depth = 8.742 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 05:54:48 / May 17, 2025 @ 5:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzss. Id of event: us7000pzss. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:54:48 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.742 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Ivins, Saint George (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 31 km S of Bunkerville, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.0653° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.742 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km S of Bunkerville, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-17 05:54:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-17 06:04:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	223	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.839	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pzss	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzss	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzss,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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