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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 15 km S of Atoka, New Mexico


Earthquake location 32.6314S, -104.4021WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Atoka in New Mexico. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:10:33 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/06/24 / 2024-06-21 04:10:33 / June 21, 2024 @ 4:10 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -104.4021 West, latitude 32.6314 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mtqr. Id of event: us7000mtqr.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad, Artesia (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 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 six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 15 km S of Atoka, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.4021° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.6314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km S of Atoka, 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 2024-06-21 04:10:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-21 04:17:14 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 148 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 0.489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us7000mtqr Id of event.
Event Code 7000mtqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mtqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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