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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas

Posted by admin on September 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.202S, -103.2798WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Pecos in Texas. Unique identifier: us10006mi7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006mi7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/16 / 2016-09-06 20:15:05 / September 6, 2016 @ 8:15 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:15:05 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.2798 West, latitude 31.202 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Monahans, Fort Stockton.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km SE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SE 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 2016-09-06 20:15:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-06 20:33:27 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 4.07 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 188 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 1.154 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006mi7 Id of event.
Event Code 10006mi7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006mi7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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