Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Pecos in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Pecos in Texas on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 15:00:06 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.18 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 1.18 km, -103.5517° West, 31.2272° North. Global time and date of event 13/07/18 / 2018-07-13 21:00:06 / July 13, 2018 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g4kt. Unique identifier: us2000g4kt.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Fort Stockton, Pecos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 22 km SSW of Pecos, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-103.5517° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.2272° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km SSW 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	2018-07-13 21:00:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-13 21:27:39	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	0.305	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us2000g4kt	Id of event.
Event Code	2000g4kt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000g4kt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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