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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near La Huerta in New Mexico


Earthquake location 32.5522S, -104.3766WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from La Huerta in New Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/06/24 / 2024-06-20 08:45:51 / June 20, 2024 @ 8:45 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.804 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -104.3766° West, latitude 32.5522° North, depth = 8.804 km. Event id: us7000mtk0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mtk0. The temblor was detected at 08:45:51 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 18 km NW of La Huerta, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3766° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.804 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km NW of La Huerta, 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 2024-06-20 08:45:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-20 08:53:12 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 158 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000mtk0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mtk0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mtk0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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