Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Caliente in Nevada

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Caliente in Nevada. Global time and date of event 06/06/25 / 2025-06-06 07:16:12 / June 6, 2025 @ 7:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -114.6777 West, latitude 37.2804 North, depth = 17.24 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qid0. Id of event: us6000qid0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.24 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 07:16:12 / 7:16 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ivins, Moapa Valley, Mesquite (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.6777° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2804° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km SSW of Caliente, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-06-06 07:16:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-06 07:29:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	248	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.323	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	us6000qid0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qid0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qid0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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