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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.7148S, -104.3457WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 10.45 km, -104.3457° West, 31.7148° North. Unique identifier: us6000dfk5. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dfk5. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:39:29 / 10:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.45 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/21 / 2021-02-08 10:39:29 / February 8, 2021 @ 10:39 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 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 2021-02-08 10:39:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-08 10:53:25 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 188 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 0.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000dfk5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dfk5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dfk5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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