Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Cuero in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cuero in Texas. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:16:14 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/03/19 / 2019-03-04 19:16:14 / March 4, 2019 @ 7:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -97.2902° West, 29.1637° North, depth 5 km. Id of earthquake: us1000jaf7. Event ids that are associated: us1000jaf7.

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Victoria (c. 62 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Gonzales (c. 7 200 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Cuero (c. 6 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Yoakum (c. 5 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Edna (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luling, Edna, Victoria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km N of Cuero, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.2902° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.1637° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km N of Cuero, Texas	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-04 19:16:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-06 16:27:53	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	129	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	0.548	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	us1000jaf7	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jaf7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jaf7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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