A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Pecos in Texas. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c5cs. Unique identifier: us2000c5cs. The temblor was picked up at 23:27:15 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/17 / 2017-12-17 05:27:15 / December 17, 2017 @ 5:27 am. Exact location of event, longitude -103.3681 West, latitude 31.0617 North, depth = 1.34 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.34 km (1 miles).
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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