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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Karnes City in Texas

Posted by admin on July 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.0393S, -97.8904WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Karnes City in Texas on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8904 West, latitude 29.0393 North, depth = 5.41 km. Global time and date of event 02/07/17 / 2017-07-02 09:00:46 / July 2, 2017 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:00:46 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.41 km (3 miles). Event id: us100095ul. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100095ul.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was New Braunfels, Yoakum, Luling (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km N of Karnes City, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8904° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.0393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N of Karnes City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-02 09:00:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-02 09:18:19 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 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 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us100095ul Id of event.
Event Code 100095ul An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100095ul, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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