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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Irving in Texas

Posted by admin on August 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.8589S, -96.9183WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Irving in Texas on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/17 / 2017-08-25 11:41:35 / August 25, 2017 @ 11:41 am. Unique identifier: us2000abmf. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000abmf. Exact location, longitude -96.9183° West, latitude 32.8589° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 05:41:35 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Decatur, Cleburne, Ennis (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNE of Irving, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8589° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNE of Irving, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-25 11:41:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-25 12:02:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 182 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 217 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 0.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us2000abmf Id of event.
Event Code 2000abmf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000abmf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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