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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Fort Stockton in Texas

Posted by admin on September 15, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.0708S, -103.2364WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Fort Stockton in Texas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -103.2364 West, latitude 31.0708 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/19 / 2019-09-15 02:29:14 / September 15, 2019 @ 2:29 am. The temblor was detected at 20:29:14 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70005gjv. Event ids that are associated: us70005gjv.

Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Fort Stockton (c. 8 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Monahans (c. 7 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monahans, Pecos, Fort Stockton.

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km WNW of Fort Stockton, Texas. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.2364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.0708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km WNW of Fort Stockton, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-15 02:29:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-15 02:38:05 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 0.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us70005gjv Id of event.
Event Code 70005gjv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005gjv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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