Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Snyder in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Snyder in Texas on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cp8r. Unique identifier: us2000cp8r. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 13:28:21 / January 25, 2018 @ 1:28 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -100.8855 West, latitude 32.8333 North, depth = 5.46 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:28:21 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.46 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Post, Sweetwater, Snyder (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 13 km NNE of Snyder, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.8855° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNE of Snyder, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-25 13:28:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-25 13:42:07	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	0.028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	51	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	us2000cp8r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cp8r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cp8r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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