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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on December 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6528S, -104.2154WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Mentone in Texas. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:06:51 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70006pgj. Event ids that are associated: us70006pgj. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.49 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -104.2154 West, latitude 31.6528 North, depth = 1.49 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/19 / 2019-12-21 17:06:51 / December 21, 2019 @ 5:06 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pecos. Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 58 km W of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.2154° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km W of Mentone, Texas Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-21 17:06:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-21 17:24:51 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 0.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us70006pgj Id of event.
Event Code 70006pgj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006pgj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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