Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.524 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/25 / 2025-03-02 22:32:19 / March 2, 2025 @ 10:32 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000pwi4. Event ids that are associated: us6000pwi4. The temblor was picked up at 22:32:19 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.2742 West, latitude 31.7028 North, depth = 10.524 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad. Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.2742° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.7028° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.524 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 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	2025-03-02 22:32:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-02 22:45:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	273	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.196	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	57	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pwi4	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwi4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwi4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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