Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (33 miles) on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us6000qh43. Event ids that are associated: us6000qh43. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.916 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:03:01 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.4057 West, latitude 31.6907 North, depth = 8.916 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/25 / 2025-05-31 18:03:01 / May 31, 2025 @ 6:03 pm.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 53 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.4057° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.916 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 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	2025-05-31 18:03:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-31 18:10:48	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	148	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.084	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	157	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	us6000qh43	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qh43	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qh43,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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