Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 4.0684 km, -104.184° West, 31.706° North. Event id: tx2025oqogvv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: tx2025oqogvv. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:31:53 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.0684 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/25 / 2025-07-27 07:31:53 / July 27, 2025 @ 7:31 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, 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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 55 km SSE of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.184° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.0684 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km SSE 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	2025-07-27 07:31:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-27 07:36:44	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	automatic	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	121	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	,tx,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	45	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	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	tx2025oqogvv	Id of event.
Event Code	2025oqogvv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025oqogvv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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