A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hope in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.636 West, latitude 32.504 North, depth = 10.901 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.901 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:49:03 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 04:49:03 / March 20, 2025 @ 4:49 am. Event id: us6000pzws. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pzws.
Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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