Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Valmy in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 60 km NE of Valmy, Nevada (37 miles) on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/25 / 2025-09-19 12:36:48 / September 19, 2025 @ 12:36 pm. Exact location, longitude -116.6661° West, latitude 41.2074° North, depth = 7.6 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:36:48 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nn00904652. Event ids that are associated: nn00904652. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.6 km (5 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 60 km NE of Valmy, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.6661° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.2074° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 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	2025-09-19 12:36:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-19 14:05:01	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	158	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1455 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144.05	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	nn00904652	Id of event.
Event Code	00904652	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00904652,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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