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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Whites City in New Mexico


Earthquake location 31.6194S, -104.3779WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico (38 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rnid. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnid. The temblor was reported at 23:16:57 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 23:16:57 / November 15, 2025 @ 11:16 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.659 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -104.3779° West, 31.6194° North, depth 9.659 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 61 km S of Whites City, New Mexico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.3779° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6194° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.659 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 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 2025-11-15 23:16:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-15 23:28:09 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 168 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.116 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 76 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 us6000rnid Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnid An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnid, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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