A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Fort Stockton in Texas on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -103.2115° West, latitude 31.1173° North, depth = 3.16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 02:48:07 / May 12, 2019 @ 2:48 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.16 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003jxk. Id of event: us70003jxk. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:48:07 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Pecos, Fort Stockton. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km NW of Fort Stockton, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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