Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Jal in New Mexico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Jal in New Mexico on Monday. Global time and date of event 15/12/25 / 2025-12-15 20:37:31 / December 15, 2025 @ 8:37 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:37:31 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rv2m. Id of event: us6000rv2m. Exact location, longitude -103.3834° West, latitude 31.9186° North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Pecos, Kermit (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Jal, New Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.3834° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.9186° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km SW of Jal, 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	2025-12-15 20:37:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-15 20:42:20	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	158	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rv2m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rv2m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rv2m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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