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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Jal in New Mexico

Posted by admin on July 22, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.2638S, -103.2668WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Jal in New Mexico on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.588 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:22:53 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -103.2668° West, latitude 32.2638° North, depth = 1.588 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qu2w. Unique identifier: us6000qu2w. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 05:22:53 / July 22, 2025 @ 5:22 am.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Hobbs (c. 34 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Andrews (c. 11 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lovington (c. 11 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Seminole (c. 6 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Seminole, Lovington, Andrews (min 5000 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 four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km NNW of Jal, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.588 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 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 2025-07-22 05:22:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-22 05:36:40 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 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us6000qu2w Id of event.
Event Code 6000qu2w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qu2w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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