Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Alvarado in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Alvarado in Texas. Exact location of event, longitude -97.1833 West, latitude 32.4759 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 08:21:50 / October 1, 2019 @ 8:21 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:21:50 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005p9k. Unique identifier: us70005p9k.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Murphy, Little Elm, Corsicana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km NNE of Alvarado, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.1833° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.4759° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNE of Alvarado, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-01 08:21:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-01 08:42:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	28	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	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	175	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.243	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us70005p9k	Id of event.
Event Code	70005p9k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005p9k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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