Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Walker Lake in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 18 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rd1k. Unique identifier: us6000rd1k. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:05:02 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 06:05:02 / September 26, 2025 @ 6:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -118.551 West, latitude 38.7075 North, depth = 10 km.

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 seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-118.551° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.7075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-26 06:05:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-26 06:23:11	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	3.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.764	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	224	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.339	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us6000rd1k	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rd1k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rd1k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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