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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Venus in Texas

Posted by admin on May 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.4813S, -97.1671WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Venus in Texas. The temblor was detected at 18:45:39 / 6:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.1671 West, latitude 32.4813 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e8d4. Id of event: us1000e8d4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 00:45:39 / May 19, 2018 @ 12:45 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Dallas (c. 1 197 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Fort Worth (c. 741 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Arlington (c. 365 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Plano (c. 259 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Garland (c. 226 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Irving (c. 216 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wylie, Allen, Rockwall.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NW of Venus, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.4813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NW of Venus, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-19 00:45:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 00:57:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.98 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 205 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 0.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us1000e8d4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000e8d4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e8d4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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