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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Carlsbad in New Mexico

Posted by admin on March 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.3877S, -104.3625WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Carlsbad in New Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pxid. Id of event: us6000pxid. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.628 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/03/25 / 2025-03-07 22:02:43 / March 7, 2025 @ 10:02 pm. Exact location, longitude -104.3625° West, latitude 32.3877° North, depth = 8.628 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:02:43 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km WSW of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3877° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.628 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km WSW of Carlsbad, 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 2025-03-07 22:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-07 23:12:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 139 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000pxid Id of event.
Event Code 6000pxid An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pxid, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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