Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -104.452° West, 31.663° North, depth 6.0999 km. The temblor was reported at 02:37:22 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.0999 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/24 / 2024-09-08 02:37:22 / September 8, 2024 @ 2:37 am. Id of earthquake: tx2024rquq. Event ids that are associated: us6000nqee, tx2024rquq.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.452° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.0999 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 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	2024-09-08 02:37:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-08 02:51:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.995	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	222	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	44	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	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	tx2024rquq	Id of event.
Event Code	2024rquq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nqee,tx2024rquq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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