A 2.3-magnitude earthquake struck about 26 miles southwest of Henderson, Nevada, on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. The quake was recorded by the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (UNR lab), which has reported several other minor earthquakes in rural Nevada over the past 24 hours. Nevada experiences an average of 10 earthquakes daily, usually small ones, according to William Savran of the UNR lab. Nevada has a history of seismic activity, including the 1915 magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Winnemucca and the 2020 magnitude 6.5 Monte Cristo earthquake near Tonopah.