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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.659S, -104.368WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (35 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qllp, tx2025mcrsyx. Unique identifier: tx2025mcrsyx. Exact location of event, longitude -104.368 West, latitude 31.659 North, depth = 7.3303 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.3303 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:20:12 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/25 / 2025-06-21 10:20:12 / June 21, 2025 @ 10:20 am.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.659° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.3303 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 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 2025-06-21 10:20:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-21 10:37:29 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 tx The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,tx, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 tx2025mcrsyx Id of event.
Event Code 2025mcrsyx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qllp,tx2025mcrsyx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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