Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Cold Springs in Nevada

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cold Springs in Nevada. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/04/25 / 2025-04-03 00:59:37 / April 3, 2025 @ 12:59 am. Exact location of event, longitude -119.92 West, latitude 39.7256 North, depth = 8.5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.5 km (5 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:59:37 / 12:59 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: nn00895571. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3ka, nn00895571.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Indian Hills, Silver Springs, Carson City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Reno (c. 225 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Sparks (c. 90 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Carson City (c. 55 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Fernley (c. 19 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Sun Valley (c. 19 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NE of Cold Springs, Nevada.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-119.92° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.7256° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km NE of Cold Springs, Nevada	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-03 00:59:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-03 01:06:16	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	automatic	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	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2169 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158.21	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	nn00895571	Id of event.
Event Code	00895571	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q3ka,nn00895571,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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