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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 56 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.691S, -104.5762WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 56 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico (35 miles) on Friday. Exact location, longitude -104.5762° West, latitude 31.691° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:04:20 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ddwx. Unique identifier: us7000ddwx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/21 / 2021-02-26 15:04:20 / February 26, 2021 @ 3:04 pm UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 56 km SSW of Whites City, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.5762° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 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 2021-02-26 15:04:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-26 15:20:38 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 158 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 0.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000ddwx Id of event.
Event Code 7000ddwx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ddwx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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