Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (37 miles). Unique identifier: us6000nhlq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nhlq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.336 West, latitude 31.6418 North, depth = 6.566 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:58:45 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.566 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/24 / 2024-08-02 15:58:45 / August 2, 2024 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.336° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6418° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.566 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 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	2024-08-02 15:58:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-02 16:08:37	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	121	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.143	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000nhlq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nhlq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nhlq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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