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

Posted by admin on December 20, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.614S, -104.498WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 63 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (39 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:08:36 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.7664 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p0ac, tx2024yxse. Id of event: tx2024yxse. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.498 West, latitude 31.614 North, depth = 6.7664 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/24 / 2024-12-20 12:08:36 / December 20, 2024 @ 12:08 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 63 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.7664 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 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 2024-12-20 12:08:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-20 12:26:52 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 4.075 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 246 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 66 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 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 tx2024yxse Id of event.
Event Code 2024yxse An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p0ac,tx2024yxse, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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