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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Hope in New Mexico

Posted by admin on March 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.5221S, -104.6391WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Hope in New Mexico. Id of earthquake: us6000pzw7. Event ids that are associated: us6000pzw7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.6391 West, latitude 32.5221 North, depth = 9.368 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.368 km (6 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:11:18 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 04:11:18 / March 20, 2025 @ 4:11 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 33 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.6391° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.5221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.368 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SSE of Hope, 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 2025-03-20 04:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 04:26:22 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us6000pzw7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzw7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzw7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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