Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Hope in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hope in New Mexico on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.216 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qukj. Unique identifier: us7000qukj. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/25 / 2025-09-07 14:57:53 / September 7, 2025 @ 2:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -104.6571° West, 32.495° North, depth 8.216 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:57:53 / 2:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Artesia, Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km SSE of Hope, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.6571° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.495° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.216 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km SSE of Hope, 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	2025-09-07 14:57:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-07 15:26:22	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	129	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.692	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us7000qukj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qukj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qukj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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