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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico

Posted by admin on February 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6628S, -104.2786WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/25 / 2025-02-18 08:58:08 / February 18, 2025 @ 8:58 am. Unique identifier: us7000pegh. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pegh. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:58:08 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -104.2786° West, 31.6628° North, depth 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.2786° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 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 2025-02-18 08:58:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-18 09:13:42 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 188 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 43 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.19 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 52 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 us7000pegh Id of event.
Event Code 7000pegh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pegh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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