Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (37 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -104.4933° West, 31.6439° North, depth 6.022 km. Id of earthquake: us7000n9ic. Event ids that are associated: us7000n9ic. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/24 / 2024-08-26 13:51:48 / August 26, 2024 @ 1:51 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.022 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 13:51:48 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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: 59 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.4933° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6439° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.022 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	2024-08-26 13:51:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-26 14:02:23	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	129	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.025	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us7000n9ic	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n9ic	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n9ic,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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