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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Fort Stockton in Texas

Posted by admin on August 12, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.0496S, -103.1619WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fort Stockton in Texas. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -103.1619° West, 31.0496° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100031pj. Id of event: us100031pj. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:49:21 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 20:49:21 / August 12, 2015 @ 8:49 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Pecos, Fort Stockton. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km WNW of Fort Stockton, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.1619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0496° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km WNW 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 2015-08-12 20:49:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-12 21:05:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 138 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 1.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us100031pj Id of event.
Event Code 100031pj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031pj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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