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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Jal in New Mexico

Posted by admin on June 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.2779S, -103.2948WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Jal in New Mexico. The temblor was reported at 11:56:58 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.2948 West, latitude 32.2779 North, depth = 4.506 km. Unique identifier: us6000ql01. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000ql01. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.506 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/06/25 / 2025-06-18 11:56:58 / June 18, 2025 @ 11:56 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Seminole, Lovington, Andrews (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Hobbs (c. 34 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lovington (c. 11 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Seminole (c. 6 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 20 km NNW of Jal, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.506 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NNW of Jal, 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 2025-06-18 11:56:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-18 12:02:10 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 188 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.249 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 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ql01 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ql01 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ql01, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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