Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Id of earthquake: us7000nwdk. Event ids that are associated: us7000nwdk. Exact location of event, longitude -104.5214 West, latitude 32.1917 North, depth = 9.953 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 23:09:12 / December 5, 2024 @ 11:09 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:09:12 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.953 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km W of Whites City, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.5214° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.1917° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.953 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 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 23:09:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 23:52:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.486	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 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	us7000nwdk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nwdk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nwdk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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