Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Pecos in Texas on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:47:02 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000d4us. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000d4us. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 17:47:02 / March 15, 2018 @ 5:47 pm. Exact location, longitude -103.2808° West, latitude 31.1427° North, depth = 5 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kermit, Monahans, Fort Stockton (min 5000 pop).

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km SSE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.2808° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.1427° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 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	2018-03-15 17:47:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-15 19:26:11	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	168	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	0.225	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us1000d4us	Id of event.
Event Code	1000d4us	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000d4us,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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