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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Malaga in New Mexico

Posted by admin on May 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.0147S, -103.7743WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico. Exact location of event, depth 7.639 km, -103.7743° West, 32.0147° North. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:48:20 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.639 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 09:48:20 / May 5, 2025 @ 9:48 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000px86. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000px86.

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km SE of Malaga, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.7743° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.0147° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.639 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km SE of Malaga, 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 2025-05-05 09:48:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-05 10:53:54 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us7000px86 Id of event.
Event Code 7000px86 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000px86, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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