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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico


Earthquake location 32.504S, -104.636WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.504° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.901 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 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 04:49:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 04:57:21 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 178 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 0.677 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 77 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 us6000pzws Id of event.
Event Code 6000pzws An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pzws, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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