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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Fort Stockton in Texas


Earthquake location 30.9526S, -102.9755WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (mg/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Fort Stockton in Texas. The temblor was reported at 19:10:30 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time of event 20/05/15 / 2015-05-20 00:10:30 / May 20, 2015 @ 12:10 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -102.9755 West, latitude 30.9526 North, depth 5 km, unique identifier, us10002anp. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us10002anp,.

Close countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Pecos, Fort Stockton.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.9755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 30.9526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Fort Stockton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-20 00:10:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-20 00:42:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 1.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us10002anp Id of event.
Event Code 10002anp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002anp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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