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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Venus in Texas


Earthquake location 32.4799S, -97.1324WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (mg/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Venus in Texas. The temblor was reported at 17:58:05 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 3.16 km (2 miles). Global time of event 07/05/15 / 2015-05-07 22:58:05 / May 7, 2015 @ 10:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -97.1324 West, latitude 32.4799 North, depth 3.16 km, unique identifier, us20002dm8.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Irving (c. 216 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Prosper, Fairview, Fate.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1324° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Venus, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-07 22:58:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-07 23:22:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 203 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.6 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 348 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 0.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20002dm8 Id of event.
Event Code 20002dm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002dm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

3 Comments

  1. Constance

    I felt the the first one at 330pm central in Lillian near Venus

  2. Sophia Millet

    I’ve never experienced anything like this before. I heard and felt a loud thud like something had hit my home in Joshua Meadows. My husband in the living room said he felt the couch vibrate but said he saw the love seat move! I didn’t know what it was so I went outside & walked around the house to see what had hit my home. Nothing! No damage, but sure shook my house. I then went next door and asked my neighbor if she had heard or felt anything and she said, oh yes, it was an earthquake. About a year ago she had felt about 3 of them…said this one was about a medium one! Wow! This was about the time it was recorded on Thurs. 5/7. I don’t know how far Joshua, TX is from Lillian or Venus but it’s not far…maybe 6 mi. via a bird.

  3. Robert Ortiz

    I felt the earthquake; location: 3300 N County Road 810, Texas 76009; near Road 917 and Interstate 35. Date: 5/07/2015, about 3:30pm. It shook a heavily constructed metal building; 24′ x 24′ with a 8″ concrete slab.

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