Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Jal in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Jal in New Mexico on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtvc, tx2024idxd. Id of event: tx2024idxd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.334 West, latitude 31.964 North, depth = 8.1506 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:23:12 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.1506 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/04/24 / 2024-04-25 23:23:12 / April 25, 2024 @ 11:23 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Odessa, Pecos, Monahans (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 21 km SW of Jal, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.334° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.964° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.1506 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 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 23:23:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-30 02:43:16	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	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	29	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	68	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	tx2024idxd	Id of event.
Event Code	2024idxd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mtvc,tx2024idxd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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