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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 25 km SW of Pecos, Texas

Posted by admin on May 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.2946S, -103.7111WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Pecos in Texas on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.7111 West, latitude 31.2946 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000e3sw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e3sw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 21:04:24 / May 12, 2018 @ 9:04 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:04:24 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos. Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 25 km SW of Pecos, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.7111° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.2946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SW 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 2018-05-12 21:04:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 21:43:38 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 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 0.153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us1000e3sw Id of event.
Event Code 1000e3sw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e3sw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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