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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas


Earthquake location 31.7074S, -104.0817WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -104.0817° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.7074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km 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 2020-01-31 03:27:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 03:41:09 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 4.479 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 199 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 0.231 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 60 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007l03 Id of event.
Event Code 60007l03 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007l03, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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