Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (35 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.843 km (5 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:51:31 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 05:51:31 / March 20, 2025 @ 5:51 am. Id of earthquake: tx2025fmyy. Event ids that are associated: us6000pzx9, tx2025fmyy. Exact location, longitude -104.409° West, latitude 31.67° North, depth = 7.843 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.409° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.67° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.843 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 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	2025-03-20 05:51:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 06:04:10	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	tx	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,tx,	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	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	tx2025fmyy	Id of event.
Event Code	2025fmyy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzx9,tx2025fmyy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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