A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Whites City in New Mexico on Saturday. Global time and date of event 12/04/25 / 2025-04-12 12:19:13 / April 12, 2025 @ 12:19 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000q5m9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q5m9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.442 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:19:13 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -104.465 West, latitude 32.3296 North, depth = 8.442 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Artesia, Carlsbad. Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Artesia (c. 11 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km NNW of Whites City, New Mexico.

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