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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6677S, -104.3833WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.744 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 03:52:17 / January 9, 2025 @ 3:52 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:52:17 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.3833 West, latitude 31.6677 North, depth = 9.744 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pisu. Unique identifier: us6000pisu.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad. The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3833° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6677° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.744 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 2025-01-09 03:52:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-09 04:02:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.722 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 287 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 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pisu Id of event.
Event Code 6000pisu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pisu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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