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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Livingston Wheeler in New Mexico

Posted by admin on July 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.3674S, -104.1183WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Livingston Wheeler in New Mexico on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:14:00 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.1183° West, 32.3674° North, depth 5 km. Unique identifier: us6000quze. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000quze. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/25 / 2025-07-25 04:14:00 / July 25, 2025 @ 4:14 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 8 km ESE of Livingston Wheeler, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.1183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ESE of Livingston Wheeler, 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 2025-07-25 04:14:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-25 04:22:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 122 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us6000quze Id of event.
Event Code 6000quze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000quze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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