Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Capulin in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Capulin in New Mexico. Global time and date of event 08/02/21 / 2021-02-08 22:50:38 / February 8, 2021 @ 10:50 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000dfqt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dfqt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.98 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -106.7815 West, latitude 36.2589 North, depth = 3.98 km. The temblor was detected at 22:50:38 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was White Rock, Española, Los Alamos (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Los Alamos (c. 12 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Española (c. 10 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from White Rock (c. 5 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 3 km NE of Capulin, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-106.7815° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2589° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NE of Capulin, 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 22:50:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-08 23:01:08	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	1.336	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us6000dfqt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dfqt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dfqt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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