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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Reno in Texas

Posted by admin on June 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9363S, -97.5927WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Reno in Texas on Wednesday. Event id: us20009ny5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009ny5. Global time and date of event 21/06/17 / 2017-06-21 22:52:05 / June 21, 2017 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:52:05 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.99 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 3.99 km, -97.5927° West, 32.9363° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Highland Park, Midlothian, Frisco. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Irving (c. 216 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Grand Prairie (c. 175 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WSW of Reno, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5927° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WSW of Reno, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-21 22:52:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-21 23:08:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 127 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 0.047 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 40 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 us20009ny5 Id of event.
Event Code 20009ny5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009ny5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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