Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Tonopah in Nevada

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 22 km SSE of Tonopah, Nevada (14 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/10/25 / 2025-10-25 12:30:12 / October 25, 2025 @ 12:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -117.0979 West, latitude 37.8974 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 12:30:12 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rjfd. Event ids that are associated: us6000rjfd.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 22 km SSE of Tonopah, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-117.0979° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.8974° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km SSE of Tonopah, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-25 12:30:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-25 12:42:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	178	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.203	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us6000rjfd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjfd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjfd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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