A 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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