Minor earthquake 3 mag, 21 km SW of Jal, New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Jal in New Mexico on Sunday. Id of earthquake: tx2025rdgslh. Event ids that are associated: us7000qst6, tx2025rdgslh. The temblor was detected at 13:33:59 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 13:33:59 / August 31, 2025 @ 1:33 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.4556 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -103.341° West, latitude 31.964° North, depth = 8.4556 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos, Monahans, Kermit (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.341° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.964° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.4556 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km SW 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	2025-08-31 13:33:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-31 13:42:38	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	138	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	39	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	tx2025rdgslh	Id of event.
Event Code	2025rdgslh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qst6,tx2025rdgslh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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