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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Mentone in Texas

Posted by admin on February 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 31.6027S, -103.984WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Mentone in Texas on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -103.984° West, 31.6027° North, depth 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007re5. Id of event: us70007re5. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:41:49 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/20 / 2020-02-16 17:41:49 / February 16, 2020 @ 5:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pecos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 51 km (31 miles) from Pecos (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 38 km WSW of Mentone, Texas.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -103.984° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 31.6027° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WSW 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 2020-02-16 17:41:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-16 18:52:45 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 129 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 0.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us70007re5 Id of event.
Event Code 70007re5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007re5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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