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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas

Posted by admin on May 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.2675S, -103.6945WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Pecos in Texas. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.9 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000e40s. Event ids that are associated: us1000e40s. The temblor was detected at 01:45:23 / 1:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -103.6945° West, 31.2675° North, depth 1.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 07:45:23 / May 13, 2018 @ 7:45 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km SW of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.6945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.2675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.9 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 2018-05-13 07:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-13 08:00:58 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 121 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 0.179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us1000e40s Id of event.
Event Code 1000e40s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e40s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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