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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Eunice in New Mexico

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Earthquake location 32.3146S, -103.2815WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Eunice in New Mexico on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/25 / 2025-05-08 18:24:10 / May 8, 2025 @ 6:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.2815 West, latitude 32.3146 North, depth = 8.763 km. Unique identifier: us7000py15. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000py15. The temblor was detected at 18:24:10 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.763 km (5 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Seminole, Lovington, Andrews. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hobbs (c. 34 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Lovington (c. 11 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Seminole (c. 6 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km SW of Eunice, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3146° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.763 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17 km SW of Eunice, 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 2025-05-08 18:24:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-08 18:32:57 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 199 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000py15 Id of event.
Event Code 7000py15 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000py15, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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