Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Malaga in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -103.805° West, latitude 32.007° North, depth = 6.933 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/02/25 / 2025-02-12 23:37:55 / February 12, 2025 @ 11:37 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pd9z, tx2025danx. Unique identifier: tx2025danx. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.933 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:37:55 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 71 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. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 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	-103.805° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.007° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.933 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 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 23:54:47	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	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	tx2025danx	Id of event.
Event Code	2025danx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pd9z,tx2025danx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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