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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 11 km W of Whites City, New Mexico

Posted by admin on December 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.1826S, -104.4943WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nwcc. Id of event: us7000nwcc. The temblor was detected at 22:52:20 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.4943° West, 32.1826° North, depth 8.662 km. Global time and date of event 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 22:52:20 / December 5, 2024 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.662 km (5 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Artesia, Carlsbad. Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km W of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.4943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.1826° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.662 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km W 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 2024-12-05 22:52:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-06 23:36:22 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us7000nwcc Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwcc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwcc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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