Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 01:47:05 / May 4, 2025 @ 1:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:47:05 / 1:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -104.448° West, latitude 31.662° North, depth = 6.3306 km. Unique identifier: tx2025iqwk. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pwzs, tx2025iqwk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.3306 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.448° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.662° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.3306 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	2025-05-04 01:47:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-04 02:08:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	531	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	671	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	16	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	0.2 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	tx2025iqwk	Id of event.
Event Code	2025iqwk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pwzs,tx2025iqwk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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