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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Timpson in Texas


Earthquake location 31.9542S, -94.4427WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Timpson in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 09:06:46 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000h85v. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h85v. Exact location of earthquake, -94.4427° West, 31.9542° North, depth 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/18 / 2018-09-04 15:06:46 / September 4, 2018 @ 3:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 67 km (42 miles) from Longview (c. 80 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lufkin (c. 35 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Nacogdoches (c. 33 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Marshall (c. 23 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Jacksonville (c. 14 500 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 Gladewater, Whitehouse, Jacksonville.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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: 7 km NW of Timpson, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -94.4427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.9542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NW of Timpson, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-04 15:06:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-04 15:20:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 159 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 1.161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us2000h85v Id of event.
Event Code 2000h85v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h85v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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