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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near South Padre Island in Texas

Posted by admin on December 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 26.3526S, -96.1637WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 103 km ENE of South Padre Island, Texas (64 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.58 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.1637 West, latitude 26.3526 North, depth = 16.58 km. The temblor was detected at 12:15:51 / 12:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/17 / 2017-12-16 18:15:51 / December 16, 2017 @ 6:15 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c59g. Unique identifier: us2000c59g.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 have been detected 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. 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: 103 km ENE of South Padre Island, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.1637° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.3526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km ENE of South Padre Island, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-16 18:15:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-16 19:19:38 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 1.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c59g Id of event.
Event Code 2000c59g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c59g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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