Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pisu, tx2025aoxt. Unique identifier: tx2025aoxt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/25 / 2025-01-09 03:52:17 / January 9, 2025 @ 3:52 am. The temblor was detected at 03:52:17 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.355° West, 31.661° North, depth 6.3049 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.3049 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.355° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.661° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3049 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 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	2025-01-09 03:52:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-09 04:20:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	22	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.572	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	280	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	tx	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 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	tx2025aoxt	Id of event.
Event Code	2025aoxt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pisu,tx2025aoxt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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