Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Bunkerville in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/05/25 / 2025-05-27 12:40:51 / May 27, 2025 @ 12:40 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:40:51 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.4 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -113.9951 West, latitude 36.506 North, depth = 8.4 km. Event id: nn00898068. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00898068.

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Ivins, Santa Clara. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SSE of Bunkerville, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-113.9951° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.506° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km SSE 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	2025-05-27 12:40:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-27 16:08:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	199	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nn	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nn,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.647	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2083 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160.69	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nn00898068	Id of event.
Event Code	00898068	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00898068,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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