Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Flatonia in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Flatonia in Texas on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.35 km (2 miles). Global time and date of event 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 22:10:09 / October 20, 2017 @ 10:10 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:10:09 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.1787° West, latitude 29.6811° North, depth = 3.35 km. Id of earthquake: us1000auyj. Event ids that are associated: us1000auyj.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from San Marcos (c. 44 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kyle (c. 28 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Lockhart (c. 12 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Elgin (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Seguin, San Marcos, Elgin.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km W of Flatonia, 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	-97.1787° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.6811° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km W of Flatonia, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-20 22:10:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-20 22:26:04	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	0.989	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us1000auyj	Id of event.
Event Code	1000auyj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000auyj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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