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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Vega in Texas

Posted by admin on September 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.3997S, -102.708WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Vega in Texas. The temblor was picked up at 13:16:08 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -102.708 West, latitude 35.3997 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 19:16:08 / August 21, 2019 @ 7:16 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005ahu. Id of event: us70005ahu.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dalhart, Hereford (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Hereford (c. 15 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Dalhart (c. 7 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km NW of Vega, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -102.708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.3997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km NW of Vega, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-21 19:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-10 13:41:17 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 121 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 0.621 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 92 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 us70005ahu Id of event.
Event Code 70005ahu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005ahu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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