Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.45 West, latitude 31.647 North, depth = 6.6638 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.6638 km (4 miles). The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:01:06 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndte, tx2024scvz. Unique identifier: tx2024scvz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 17:01:06 / September 14, 2024 @ 5:01 pm.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.45° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.647° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.6638 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 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 17:42:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.236	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	235	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	22	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	tx2024scvz	Id of event.
Event Code	2024scvz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ndte,tx2024scvz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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