Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Carlsbad in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Carlsbad in New Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.256 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -104.6247 West, latitude 32.4749 North, depth = 7.256 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:04:33 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pzw4. Unique identifier: us6000pzw4. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 04:04:33 / March 20, 2025 @ 4:04 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 37 km W of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.6247° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4749° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.256 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km W 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	2025-03-20 04:04:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 04:21:14	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	129	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.633	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us6000pzw4	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzw4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzw4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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