Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 54 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (34 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/06/24 / 2024-06-01 04:53:56 / June 1, 2024 @ 4:53 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.6384 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -104.402 West, latitude 31.684 North, depth = 5.6384 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:53:56 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: tx2024ksce. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mpeu, tx2024ksce.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.402° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.684° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.6384 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	54 km S of Whites City, 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	2024-06-01 04:53:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-01 05:10:07	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	121	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	19	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	98	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	tx2024ksce	Id of event.
Event Code	2024ksce	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mpeu,tx2024ksce,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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