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Minor earthquake 2.83 mag, 44 km SE of Beatty, Nevada


Earthquake location 36.6712S, -116.3563WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Beatty in Nevada on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkck, nn00906582. Unique identifier: nn00906582. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.4479 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/25 / 2025-10-30 13:47:12 / October 30, 2025 @ 1:47 pm. Exact location, longitude -116.3563° West, latitude 36.6712° North, depth = 5.4479 km. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:47:12 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Pahrump (c. 36 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pahrump (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km SE of Beatty, Nevada. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.3563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6712° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.4479 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km SE of Beatty, Nevada Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-30 13:47:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-30 15:08:40 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 123 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 ,us,nn, 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 0.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1383 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 nn00906582 Id of event.
Event Code 00906582 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkck,nn00906582, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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