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

Posted by admin on January 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.8273S, -98.0744WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Karnes City in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:30:17 / 6:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000cjxf. Unique identifier: us2000cjxf. Exact location, longitude -98.0744° West, latitude 28.8273° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/18 / 2018-01-16 12:30:17 / January 16, 2018 @ 12:30 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Beeville (c. 12 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pleasanton (c. 8 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kirby (c. 8 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Floresville (c. 6 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kirby, Beeville, Pleasanton. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km WSW of Karnes City, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0744° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.8273° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW of Karnes City, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-16 12:30:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-30 09:11:32 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 0.235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us2000cjxf Id of event.
Event Code 2000cjxf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cjxf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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