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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas

Posted by admin on June 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.3419S, -103.1388WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pecos in Texas. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:57:29 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -103.1388 West, latitude 31.3419 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us20009kuh. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009kuh. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/17 / 2017-06-05 22:57:29 / June 5, 2017 @ 10:57 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Fort Stockton, Monahans. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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. 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 has struck near.

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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. 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: 34 km ESE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.1388° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km ESE 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 2017-06-05 22:57:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-05 23:12:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 148 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 0.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 us20009kuh Id of event.
Event Code 20009kuh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009kuh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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