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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Malaga in New Mexico


Earthquake location 32.054S, -103.7204WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -103.7204° West, 32.054° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:59:21 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/25 / 2025-07-15 08:59:21 / July 15, 2025 @ 8:59 am. Event id: us7000qcrl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qcrl.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 38 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.7204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 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 09:13:34 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 199 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 0.116 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us7000qcrl Id of event.
Event Code 7000qcrl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qcrl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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