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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Paradise Hills in New Mexico


Earthquake location 35.2075S, -106.774WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Paradise Hills in New Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: usa000p771. Unique identifier: usa000p771. The temblor was picked up at 14:11:46 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.934 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 10/09/24 / 2024-09-10 14:11:46 / September 10, 2024 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -106.774° West, 35.2075° North, depth 6.934 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belen, Los Chavez, Los Lunas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 18 km (11 miles) from Albuquerque (c. 545 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Rio Rancho (c. 87 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Enchanted Hills (c. 87 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from South Valley (c. 41 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Los Lunas (c. 14 800 pop).

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 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km W of Paradise Hills, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -106.774° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2075° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.934 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km W of Paradise Hills, 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 2024-09-10 14:11:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-10 17:55:00 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 2.2 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 usa000p771 Id of event.
Event Code a000p771 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa000p771, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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