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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Snyder in Texas


Earthquake location 32.8898S, -100.8582WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Snyder in Texas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 07:14:44 / October 1, 2019 @ 7:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:14:44 / 1:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -100.8582° West, 32.8898° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005p8j. Id of event: us70005p8j.

Nearby 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 Sweetwater, Post, Snyder. Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Snyder (c. 11 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sweetwater (c. 10 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Post (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 19 km NNE of Snyder, Texas.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -100.8582° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.8898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of Snyder, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-01 07:14:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 07:41:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.862 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 247 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 0.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005p8j Id of event.
Event Code 70005p8j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005p8j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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