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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6607S, -104.5725WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 60 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico (37 miles) on Sunday. Event id: us7000d2we. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d2we. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.5725 West, latitude 31.6607 North, depth = 3.72 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:12:30 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.72 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/21 / 2021-01-24 12:12:30 / January 24, 2021 @ 12:12 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 60 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.5725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60 km SSW 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 2021-01-24 12:12:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-24 12:38:50 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 121 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 0.061 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000d2we Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2we An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2we, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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