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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Snyder in Texas

Posted by admin on January 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.9138S, -100.8899WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Snyder in Texas on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 10:20:28 / January 18, 2019 @ 10:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -100.8899 West, latitude 32.9138 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 04:20:28 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j5p3. Id of event: us2000j5p3.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sweetwater, Post, Snyder (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km N of Snyder, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.8899° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.9138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km 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 2019-01-18 10:20:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-18 11:28:30 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 0.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j5p3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j5p3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j5p3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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