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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Poth in Texas

Posted by admin on December 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.0325S, -97.9746WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Poth in Texas. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us2000iw8d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000iw8d. The temblor was detected at 01:41:51 / 1:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.9746° West, 29.0325° North, depth 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 07:41:51 / December 22, 2018 @ 7:41 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luling, New Braunfels, Lackland Air Force Base (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 67 km (41 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km ESE of Poth, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9746° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.0325° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE of Poth, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-22 07:41:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 07:59:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 139 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 0.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us2000iw8d Id of event.
Event Code 2000iw8d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iw8d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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