Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Malaga in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico. The temblor was reported at 08:59:21 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -103.726° West, latitude 32.069° North, depth = 6.8817 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.8817 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 15/07/25 / 2025-07-15 08:59:21 / July 15, 2025 @ 8:59 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: tx2025nuqmkn. Event ids that are associated: us7000qcrl, tx2025nuqmkn.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 36 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.726° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.069° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.8817 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 km ESE of Malaga, 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	2025-07-15 08:59:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-15 09:26:20	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	4.35	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	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 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	tx2025nuqmkn	Id of event.
Event Code	2025nuqmkn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qcrl,tx2025nuqmkn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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