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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near San Mateo in New Mexico


Earthquake location 35.498S, -107.5881WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from San Mateo in New Mexico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -107.5881° West, 35.498° North, depth 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/24 / 2024-10-18 15:52:34 / October 18, 2024 @ 3:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:52:34 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000nzjf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nzjf. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Grants (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Grants (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNE of San Mateo, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -107.5881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km NNE of San Mateo, 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 2024-10-18 15:52:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-07 22:01:16 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 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000nzjf Id of event.
Event Code 6000nzjf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzjf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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