Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 37 km SSE of Pecos, Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pecos in Texas on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/17 / 2017-12-15 09:53:40 / December 15, 2017 @ 9:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -103.2902° West, latitude 31.1383° North, depth = 1.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:53:40 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles). Unique identifier: us2000c4sj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000c4sj.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every 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. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 37 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.2902° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.1383° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km 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	2017-12-15 09:53:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-15 10:21:15	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	0.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us2000c4sj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c4sj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c4sj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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