Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Mentone in Texas

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 69 km W of Mentone, Texas (43 miles) on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.23 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:29:02 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007btp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007btp. Global time and date of event 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 02:29:02 / January 21, 2020 @ 2:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -104.33° West, latitude 31.6629° North, depth = 3.23 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km W of Mentone, 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	-104.33° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	31.6629° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km 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	2020-01-21 02:29:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 02:47:50	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	0.37	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us60007btp	Id of event.
Event Code	60007btp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007btp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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