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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Poth in Texas

Posted by admin on June 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 29.006S, -98.0212WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Poth in Texas. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004195. Id of event: us60004195. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:07:18 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/06/19 / 2019-06-16 01:07:18 / June 16, 2019 @ 1:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -98.0212° West, latitude 29.006° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from New Braunfels (c. 57 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luling, Leon Valley, New Braunfels. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SE of Poth, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Poth, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-16 01:07:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 01:28:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.565 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 200 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 0.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us60004195 Id of event.
Event Code 60004195 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004195, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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