A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Karnes City in Texas. Exact location of event, longitude -97.8951 West, latitude 28.9846 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 16:46:30 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006w2x. Unique identifier: us70006w2x. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 22:46:30 / January 7, 2020 @ 10:46 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio, Windcrest, Universal City.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km N of Karnes City, Texas. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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