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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico

Posted by admin on August 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.656S, -104.457WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Event id: tx2024qnpx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n8wd, tx2024qnpx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.2024 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.457 West, latitude 31.656 North, depth = 6.2024 km. Global time and date of event 23/08/24 / 2024-08-23 03:21:38 / August 23, 2024 @ 3:21 am UTC/GMT. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:21:38 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlsbad (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.2024 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2024-08-23 03:21:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-23 03:43:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.258 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 235 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 37 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 tx2024qnpx Id of event.
Event Code 2024qnpx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n8wd,tx2024qnpx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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