Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Valmy in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada (32 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: nn00903492. Event ids that are associated: nn00903492. Exact location of earthquake, -116.7392° West, 41.1554° North, depth 7.2 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:54:43 / 1:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 01:54:43 / August 31, 2025 @ 1:54 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.2 km (4 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.7392° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.1554° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 km NE of Valmy, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-31 01:54:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-31 02:51:14	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	148	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.303	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1243 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139.08	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	nn00903492	Id of event.
Event Code	00903492	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00903492,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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