Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nepl, tx2024oixr. Unique identifier: tx2024oixr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/24 / 2024-07-23 02:31:04 / July 23, 2024 @ 2:31 am. Exact location of event, longitude -104.407 West, latitude 31.676 North, depth = 5.5872 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.5872 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:31:04 / 2:31 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.407° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.5872 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 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	2024-07-23 02:31:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-23 03:16:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.286	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	275	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	35	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	56	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	tx2024oixr	Id of event.
Event Code	2024oixr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nepl,tx2024oixr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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