Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Irving in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Irving in Texas on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000435f. Event ids that are associated: us1000435f. The temblor was reported at 15:35:58 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -96.9218° West, 32.8525° North, depth 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 21:35:58 / December 3, 2015 @ 9:35 pm.

Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Decatur, Cleburne, Anna (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km NNE of Irving, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.9218° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8525° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNE of Irving, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-12-03 21:35:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-03 21:48:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	217	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	194	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	0.019	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 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	us1000435f	Id of event.
Event Code	1000435f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000435f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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