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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Pecos in Texas

Posted by admin on June 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.159S, -103.2691WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pecos in Texas on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 04:57:21 / 4:57 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000ehtw. Event ids that are associated: us1000ehtw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 10:57:21 / June 3, 2018 @ 10:57 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.09 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -103.2691° West, latitude 31.159° North, depth = 3.09 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 36 km SE of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.159° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km SE 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 2018-06-03 10:57:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-03 11:11:07 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 0.243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us1000ehtw Id of event.
Event Code 1000ehtw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ehtw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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