Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Bunkerville in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Bunkerville in Nevada on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/03/25 / 2025-03-29 04:46:47 / March 29, 2025 @ 4:46 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000pniy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pniy. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:46:47 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -114.0002° West, 36.492° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Washington, Ivins, Santa Clara (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Saint George (c. 72 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Washington (c. 18 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mesquite (c. 15 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Moapa Valley (c. 6 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ivins (c. 6 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Santa Clara (c. 6 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 33 km SSE of Bunkerville, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-114.0002° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.492° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km SSE of Bunkerville, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-29 04:46:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-29 04:55:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	201	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.799	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us7000pniy	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pniy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pniy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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