Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Malaga in New Mexico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Malaga in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, -103.718° West, 32.08° North, depth 8.0353 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rdtw, tx2025tgpuec. Unique identifier: tx2025tgpuec. The temblor was reported at 17:13:42 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 17:13:42 / September 30, 2025 @ 5:13 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.0353 km (5 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos, Kermit, Carlsbad.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km ESE of Malaga, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.718° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.08° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.0353 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km ESE of Malaga, 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	2025-09-30 17:13:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-30 17:29:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	168	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	22	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	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	tx2025tgpuec	Id of event.
Event Code	2025tgpuec	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rdtw,tx2025tgpuec,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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