Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -104.4 West, latitude 31.653 North, depth = 5.8435 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 19:19:12 / October 14, 2025 @ 7:19 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.8435 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: tx2025ugmcqg. Unique identifier: tx2025ugmcqg. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:19:12 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlsbad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-104.4° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.8435 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 km S 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	2025-10-14 19:19:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-14 19:26:37	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	234	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	32	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	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	tx2025ugmcqg	Id of event.
Event Code	2025ugmcqg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,tx2025ugmcqg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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