A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pringle in South Dakota. Unique identifier: us6000pxqz. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pxqz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -103.434 West, latitude 43.6416 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 03:14:28 / March 9, 2025 @ 3:14 am. The temblor was detected at 03:14:28 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Box Elder, Rapid Valley, Rapid City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Rapid City (c. 68 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Rapid Valley (c. 8 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Box Elder (c. 7 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km ENE of Pringle, South Dakota.

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