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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6524S, -104.3541WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (36 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:27:11 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.3541 West, latitude 31.6524 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 12:27:11 / June 24, 2020 @ 12:27 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ahs0. Unique identifier: us6000ahs0.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 58 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 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 2020-06-24 12:27:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 12:42:33 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us6000ahs0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ahs0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahs0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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