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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6557S, -104.2934WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. The temblor was detected at 03:29:25 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/09/20 / 2020-09-10 03:29:25 / September 10, 2020 @ 3:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, -104.2934° West, 31.6557° North, depth 5 km. Id of earthquake: us7000bkv3. Event ids that are associated: us7000bkv3.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.2934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6557° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-10 03:29:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-10 03:49:29 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 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 148 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000bkv3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bkv3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bkv3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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