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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Beatty in Nevada

Posted by admin on October 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6518S, -116.3346WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Beatty in Nevada. The temblor was reported at 13:47:11 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.506 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000rkck. Event ids that are associated: us6000rkck. Exact location of earthquake, -116.3346° West, 36.6518° North, depth 5.506 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/25 / 2025-10-30 13:47:11 / October 30, 2025 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Pahrump (c. 36 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pahrump (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 47 km SE of Beatty, Nevada.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.3346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.506 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 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 13:47:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-30 14:14:54 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 121 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.304 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us6000rkck Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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