Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Pecos in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Pecos in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -103.3227° West, latitude 31.0708° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 07:51:35 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 12:51:35 / October 29, 2016 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100072yp. Unique identifier: us100072yp.

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop).

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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 42 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.3227° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.0708° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km 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	2016-10-29 12:51:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-29 13:08:18	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	1.28	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	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	us100072yp	Id of event.
Event Code	100072yp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072yp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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