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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Jal in New Mexico

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Earthquake location 31.968S, -103.332WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Jal in New Mexico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.843 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 19:36:44 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.332° West, 31.968° North, depth 7.843 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/04/24 / 2024-04-25 19:36:44 / April 25, 2024 @ 7:36 pm. Unique identifier: tx2024idps. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mttt, tx2024idps.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Hobbs (c. 34 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hobbs, Andrews, West Odessa.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 20 km SW of Jal, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.968° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.843 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km SW of Jal, 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 2024-04-25 19:36:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 15:31:46 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 4.126 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 tx The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 tx2024idps Id of event.
Event Code 2024idps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mttt,tx2024idps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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