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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.69S, -104.404WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mpj9, tx2024ktol. Unique identifier: tx2024ktol. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.0999 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 00:04:17 / June 2, 2024 @ 12:04 am. Exact location, longitude -104.404° West, latitude 31.69° North, depth = 6.0999 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:04:17 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.404° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.69° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.0999 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 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 2024-06-02 00:04:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-02 00:16:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 189 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 30 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 tx2024ktol Id of event.
Event Code 2024ktol An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mpj9,tx2024ktol, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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