Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Jal in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Jal in New Mexico on Monday. The temblor was reported at 11:04:25 / 11:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/05/24 / 2024-05-27 11:04:25 / May 27, 2024 @ 11:04 am. Exact location, longitude -103.0895° West, latitude 32.2207° North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n192. Unique identifier: us6000n192.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Odessa, Monahans, West Odessa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Odessa (c. 99 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Hobbs (c. 34 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NE of Jal, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.0895° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.2207° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NE 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	2024-05-27 11:04:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-27 11:39:40	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.294	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us6000n192	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n192	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n192,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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