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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico

Posted by admin on June 1, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6621S, -104.3921WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. The temblor was detected at 09:28:46 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.083 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qh82. Unique identifier: us6000qh82. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/06/25 / 2025-06-01 09:28:46 / June 1, 2025 @ 9:28 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.083 km, -104.3921° West, 31.6621° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-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. 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: 56 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3921° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6621° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.083 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 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 2025-06-01 09:28:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-01 09:48:01 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 234 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qh82 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qh82 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qh82, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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