Residents around Las Vegas may have felt a small overnight shake after a 4.7 magnitude earthquake was detected in Stovepipe Wells, California at 1:05 a.m. Friday, according to the USGS.

The magnitude 3.6 quake then occurred at 5:32 p.m., also 27 miles from Avalon, the USGS ... of 234 earthquakes with magnitudes of 3.0 to 4.0 occur each year in California and Nevada, according ...