Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Malaga in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/25 / 2025-02-12 23:37:55 / February 12, 2025 @ 11:37 pm. The temblor was picked up at 23:37:55 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pd9z. Unique identifier: us7000pd9z. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.769 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -103.8033 West, latitude 31.9948 North, depth = 8.769 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad. The epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SE of Malaga, 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	-103.8033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.9948° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.769 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km SE of Malaga, 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	2025-02-12 23:37:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-12 23:46:21	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.106	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pd9z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pd9z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pd9z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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