A 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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