Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. The temblor was detected at 12:16:28 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.474 West, latitude 31.722 North, depth = 6.51 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/02/25 / 2025-02-18 12:16:28 / February 18, 2025 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.51 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000peh7, tx2025dkql. Unique identifier: tx2025dkql.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 51 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.474° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.722° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.51 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 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	2025-02-18 12:16:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-18 12:42:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	35	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.248	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	343	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	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	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	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	tx2025dkql	Id of event.
Event Code	2025dkql	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000peh7,tx2025dkql,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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