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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Stockdale in Texas


Earthquake location 29.1031S, -97.8765WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Stockdale in Texas. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003jcb. Unique identifier: us70003jcb. Exact location, longitude -97.8765° West, latitude 29.1031° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 10:49:30 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/19 / 2019-05-10 16:49:30 / May 10, 2019 @ 4:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lackland Air Force Base, Yoakum, Alamo Heights (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 16 km SSE of Stockdale, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.1031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE of Stockdale, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-10 16:49:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-11 06:13:44 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 3.1 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 0.66 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us70003jcb Id of event.
Event Code 70003jcb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003jcb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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