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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Whites City in New Mexico

Posted by admin on October 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.3726S, -104.6034WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhnh. Id of event: us6000rhnh. The temblor was picked up at 22:02:35 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -104.6034° West, 32.3726° North, depth 7.544 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/25 / 2025-10-16 22:02:35 / October 16, 2025 @ 10:02 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.544 km (5 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Artesia, Carlsbad. Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 30 km NW of Whites City, New Mexico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.6034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.3726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.544 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km NW 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 2025-10-16 22:02:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-16 22:19:26 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 4.319 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 188 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.63 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000rhnh Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhnh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhnh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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