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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake strikes near Farmers Branch in Texas

Posted by admin on May 18, 2015 5 Comments

Earthquake location 32.8833S, -96.9147WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (mg/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Farmers Branch in Texas. The temblor was reported at 13:14:29 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time of event 18/05/15 / 2015-05-18 18:14:29 / May 18, 2015 @ 6:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -96.9147 West, latitude 32.8833 North, depth 5 km, unique identifier, us10002a93. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002a93,.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Greenville, Cleburne, Decatur.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9147° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8833° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSW of Farmers Branch, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-18 18:14:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-18 18:29:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 487 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 387 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 0.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10002a93 Id of event.
Event Code 10002a93 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002a93, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Kim

    I felt it in Denton… It was a pretty good size shake here!

    May 18, 2015
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  2. Karie

    A hard thud and then swaying here in Irving…..

    May 18, 2015
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  3. Lynn

    Felt it in North Dallas

    May 18, 2015
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  4. Yasmin

    Yes I felt here in Dallas Irving.. It was a hard huge shake.. Loud fast shake shocking ….

    May 18, 2015
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  5. MoYo

    Yes Coppell/Irving

    May 18, 2015
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