{"id":136109,"date":"2025-05-04T04:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/magnitude-5-3-earthquake-among-three-to-shake-remote-west-texas-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T04:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:11:53","slug":"magnitude-5-3-earthquake-among-three-to-shake-remote-west-texas-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/magnitude-5-3-earthquake-among-three-to-shake-remote-west-texas-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-5.3 earthquake among three to shake remote West Texas &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile<br \/>Sections<br \/>Local<br \/>tv<br \/>Featured<br \/>More From NBC<br \/>Follow NBC News<br \/> news Alerts<br \/>There are no new alerts at this time<br \/>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.<br \/>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.<br \/>The quake occurred nearly 4 miles beneath the earth&#8217;s surface, the survey said. <br \/>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.<br \/>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.<br \/>NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/news\/el-paso-area-feels-earthquake-from-west-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">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.<br \/>The survey&#8217;s &#8220;Did You Feel It&#8221; list shows responses from the Texas cities of Arlington, Midland, Lubbock and more.<br \/>No injuries were reported.<br \/>Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxNby1Wc3Rkb2hpRTd1Y1ZxQ19UQmRxc0xZMmRwTER1Sndqd3JNWWJwNmxudVdlUEtzeU5UTjZSSjEwN2tjckFvZGxVcVVkU1NiRTg5V1Q0blAtY211b210WmVuN1h1ZHg3MHB0VlZaWFhfLVBJUzNtZUFENFUtbGFGdHNMS3hHMk8wUGF6WndPYXBaS0ZqcnRwYnNSUHfSAVZBVV95cUxQSzBxdlI5T2ppZl9icXlLSHY1aG9HSWVVdGpnd080UllPX3ZUREFJajBpLUZhMHRUSmlrRU9lVHBJck9ReGZYN0JwcUJHSjJ2VkM2RzR2UQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProfileSectionsLocaltvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC News news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeA 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}