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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Nixon in Texas

Posted by admin on May 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.2824S, -97.6568WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Nixon in Texas. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:52:21 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 10:52:21 / May 14, 2019 @ 10:52 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us70003kxh. Event ids that are associated: us70003kxh. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6568 West, latitude 29.2824 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Marcos (c. 44 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Windcrest, Kirby, Live Oak.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km E of Nixon, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6568° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.2824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km E of Nixon, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-14 10:52:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-14 11:12:31 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 0.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us70003kxh Id of event.
Event Code 70003kxh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003kxh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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