{"id":41824,"date":"2025-05-04T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41824"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T12:18:13","slug":"magnitude-5-3-earthquake-among-three-to-shake-remote-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41824","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-5.3 earthquake among three to shake remote West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck West Texas on Saturday night, part of a swarm of earthquakes to rock the area near the Texas border with New Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The temblor struck at 7:47 p.m. about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico, the USGS said. The area is roughly midway between the Texas cities of Midland and El Paso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The quake occurred nearly 4 miles beneath the earth&#8217;s surface, the survey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Because the region has a sparse population, few residents were affected, the USGS said. Ground failure and landslides were unlikely, as was liquifaction, when soil behaves like a fluid, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The temblor was part of a swarm of 46 mostly small earthquakes in the area since early April, USGS data indicates. There&#8217;s a 65% chance of a strong aftershock with a week, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">NBC affiliate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/news\/el-paso-area-feels-earthquake-from-west-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KTSM of El Paso<\/a>, more than 100 miles west of the area, reported the 5.3 temblor was the strongest of three stronger-than-usual earthquakes to rock the area Saturday night, which also included magnitude 3.4 and 2.9 quakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The survey&#8217;s &#8220;Did You Feel It&#8221; list shows responses from the Texas cities of Arlington, Midland, Lubbock and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/earthquakes-53-magnitude-shake-remote-west-texas-rcna204670\">nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck West Texas on Saturday night, part of a swarm of earthquakes to rock the area near the Texas border with New Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The temblor struck at 7:47 p.m. about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico, the USGS said. The area is roughly midway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[6734,1298],"class_list":["post-41824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-magnitude","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41826,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41824\/revisions\/41826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}