Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Cuero in Texas

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Cuero in Texas. The temblor was reported at 08:37:23 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.4677° West, 29.1466° North, depth 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003k1t. Unique identifier: us70003k1t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 14:37:23 / May 12, 2019 @ 2:37 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Seguin, Floresville, Luling (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Victoria (c. 62 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Gonzales (c. 7 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Cuero (c. 6 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Floresville (c. 6 400 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km WNW of Cuero, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.4677° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	29.1466° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km WNW 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	2019-05-12 14:37:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-12 14:47:52	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	148	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	0.723	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	148	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	us70003k1t	Id of event.
Event Code	70003k1t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003k1t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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