Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Pecos in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pecos in Texas. The temblor was reported at 22:08:49 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 03:08:49 / June 16, 2016 @ 3:08 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us200064pt. Unique identifier: us200064pt. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.89 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -103.302° West, 31.1353° North, depth 2.89 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.302° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.1353° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km SSE of Pecos, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-16 03:08:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-16 03:19:17	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	168	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	1.822	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	81	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	us200064pt	Id of event.
Event Code	200064pt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200064pt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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