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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.669S, -104.302WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/24 / 2024-11-21 02:59:52 / November 21, 2024 @ 2:59 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p6p9, tx2024wwan. Unique identifier: tx2024wwan. The temblor was detected at 02:59:52 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.3303 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -104.302° West, 31.669° North, depth 7.3303 km.

The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.3303 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 2024-11-21 02:59:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-21 03:18:42 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 3.848 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 178 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 21 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 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 tx2024wwan Id of event.
Event Code 2024wwan An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6p9,tx2024wwan, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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