A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Mentone in Texas. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -104.0817° West, 31.7074° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 03:27:37 / January 31, 2020 @ 3:27 am. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:27:37 / 9:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007l03. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007l03. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Carlsbad (c. 26 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 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 Carlsbad, Pecos.
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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km W of Mentone, Texas.
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