Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Schurz in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Schurz in Nevada. Unique identifier: nn00903971. Ids that are associated to the event: nn00903971. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.7232 West, latitude 38.8882 North, depth = 13.3 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/25 / 2025-09-08 09:45:02 / September 8, 2025 @ 9:45 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.3 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 09:45:02 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Fallon (c. 8 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Silver Springs (c. 5 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Silver Springs, Fallon. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. 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: 10 km SE of Schurz, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.7232° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SE of Schurz, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-08 09:45:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-08 09:48:04	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	automatic	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	121	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.414	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3386 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59.18	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	nn00903971	Id of event.
Event Code	00903971	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00903971,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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