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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 15 km S of Jourdanton, Texas

Posted by admin on June 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.7835S, -98.5216WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Jourdanton in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 04:30:24 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 01/06/18 / 2018-06-01 10:30:24 / June 1, 2018 @ 10:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.5216 West, latitude 28.7835 North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us1000ege4. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ege4.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leon Valley, Alamo Heights, Kirby (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Leon Valley (c. 10 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Lackland Air Force Base (c. 9 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Pearsall (c. 9 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Pleasanton (c. 8 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km S of Jourdanton, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.5216° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.7835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km S of Jourdanton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-01 10:30:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-01 10:45:37 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 148 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 0.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ege4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ege4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ege4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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