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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 12 km S of Atoka, New Mexico


Earthquake location 32.656S, -104.4069WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Atoka in New Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mnrm. Unique identifier: us7000mnrm. The temblor was detected at 12:46:21 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/05/24 / 2024-05-29 12:46:21 / May 29, 2024 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -104.4069 West, latitude 32.656 North, depth = 9.147 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.147 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Roswell (c. 48 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Roswell, Carlsbad, Artesia (min 5000 pop). 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 nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 12 km S of Atoka, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.4069° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.147 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km S of Atoka, 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 2024-05-29 12:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-29 12:51:29 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 178 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.505 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us7000mnrm Id of event.
Event Code 7000mnrm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mnrm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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