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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6579S, -104.2853WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -104.2853° West, 31.6579° North, depth 12.15 km. The temblor was reported at 09:21:13 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dfwp. Id of event: us6000dfwp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.15 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/02/21 / 2021-02-09 09:21:13 / February 9, 2021 @ 9:21 am.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad, Pecos (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.2853° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6579° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.15 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 2021-02-09 09:21:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-09 09:35:45 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 4.429 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 246 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 0.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 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 us6000dfwp Id of event.
Event Code 6000dfwp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dfwp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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