A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Jal in New Mexico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.6212 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:42:18 / 12:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.375 West, latitude 31.957 North, depth = 8.6212 km. Id of earthquake: tx2025mduhbh. Event ids that are associated: tx2025mduhbh. Global time and date of event 22/06/25 / 2025-06-22 00:42:18 / June 22, 2025 @ 12:42 am UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Pecos, Kermit (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 24 km SW of Jal, New Mexico.
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