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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6679S, -104.4173WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000ddnc. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ddnc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 01/02/21 / 2021-02-01 15:27:29 / February 1, 2021 @ 3:27 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:27:29 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.4173° West, 31.6679° North, depth 5 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.4173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6679° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 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 2021-02-01 15:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-01 15:39:02 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 4.728 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 234 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 0.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us6000ddnc Id of event.
Event Code 6000ddnc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ddnc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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