Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Snyder in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Snyder in Texas on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.66 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 16:56:33 / September 16, 2018 @ 4:56 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:56:33 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000hfht. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000hfht. Exact location of event, longitude -100.9067 West, latitude 32.8716 North, depth = 1.66 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Post, Snyder (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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 17 km N of Snyder, Texas.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.9067° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	32.8716° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km N of Snyder, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-09-16 16:56:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-16 17:04:52	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	0.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us2000hfht	Id of event.
Event Code	2000hfht	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000hfht,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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