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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 34 km SSW of Monahans, Texas


Earthquake location 31.3252S, -103.0679WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Monahans in Texas on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/19 / 2019-07-31 01:14:17 / July 31, 2019 @ 1:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, -103.0679° West, 31.3252° North, depth 5 km. Unique identifier: us60004xq1. Ids that are associated to the event: us60004xq1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:14:17 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from West Odessa (c. 22 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kermit (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Odessa, Kermit, Fort Stockton (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 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.

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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 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: 34 km SSW of Monahans, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.0679° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.3252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSW of Monahans, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-31 01:14:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-31 01:25:16 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 178 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 0.262 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60004xq1 Id of event.
Event Code 60004xq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004xq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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