Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.363 West, latitude 31.663 North, depth = 6.7664 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024qyag. Id of event: tx2024qyag. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:57:22 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.7664 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 19:57:22 / August 28, 2024 @ 7:57 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.363° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.7664 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 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	2024-08-28 19:57:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-28 20:08:58	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	234	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	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	57	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	tx2024qyag	Id of event.
Event Code	2024qyag	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024qyag,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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