Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.7913 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 01:36:47 / November 2, 2024 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. Event id: tx2024vnfl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2024vnfl, us7000nph1. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.358 West, latitude 31.662 North, depth = 4.7913 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:36:47 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.7913 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 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	2024-11-02 01:36:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-02 01:53:48	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	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.523	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	automatic	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	248	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	,tx,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	tx2024vnfl	Id of event.
Event Code	2024vnfl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2024vnfl,us7000nph1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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