A 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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