Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 22 km SSE of Pecos, Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Pecos in Texas. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:12:21 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.3904° West, 31.2401° North, depth 3.25 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.25 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/08/17 / 2017-08-24 02:12:21 / August 24, 2017 @ 2:12 am. Id of earthquake: us2000ab6z. Event ids that are associated: us2000ab6z.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kermit, Fort Stockton, Monahans (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, 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 have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km SSE of Pecos, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.3904° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.2401° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km 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	2017-08-24 02:12:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-24 02:38:42	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	129	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	0.428	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us2000ab6z	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ab6z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000ab6z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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