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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.594S, -104.3994WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000msur. Unique identifier: us7000msur. The temblor was reported at 18:47:43 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/06/24 / 2024-06-16 18:47:43 / June 16, 2024 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -104.3994° West, latitude 31.594° North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.594° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 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 2024-06-16 18:47:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-16 18:55:11 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 234 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000msur Id of event.
Event Code 7000msur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000msur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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