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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6323S, -104.4726WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.814 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndte. Id of event: us7000ndte. Exact location of event, longitude -104.4726 West, latitude 31.6323 North, depth = 8.814 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 17:01:06 / September 14, 2024 @ 5:01 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:01:06 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 60 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.4726° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.814 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 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 2024-09-14 17:01:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-14 17:11:08 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 259 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.043 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 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000ndte Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndte An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndte, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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