Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Shoshone in California

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Shoshone in California. Global time and date of event 01/04/25 / 2025-04-01 15:07:15 / April 1, 2025 @ 3:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:07:15 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -116.3114° West, 36.1233° North, depth 8.632 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.632 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000pp8v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: nn00895477, us7000pp8v.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pahrump. Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Pahrump (c. 36 400 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 quakes 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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NNW of Shoshone, California. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-116.3114° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1233° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.632 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km NNW of Shoshone, California	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-01 15:07:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-01 16:52:38	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	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	,nn,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.225	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	us7000pp8v	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pp8v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nn00895477,us7000pp8v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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